{ "CVE_data_meta": { "ID": "CVE-2021-24745", "ASSIGNER": "contact@wpscan.com", "STATE": "PUBLIC", "TITLE": "About Author Box < 1.0.2 - Contributor+ Stored Cross-Site Scripting" }, "data_format": "MITRE", "data_type": "CVE", "data_version": "4.0", "generator": "WPScan CVE Generator", "affects": { "vendor": { "vendor_data": [ { "vendor_name": "Unknown", "product": { "product_data": [ { "product_name": "About Author Box", "version": { "version_data": [ { "version_affected": "<", "version_name": "1.0.2", "version_value": "1.0.2" } ] } } ] } } ] } }, "description": { "description_data": [ { "lang": "eng", "value": "The About Author Box WordPress plugin before 1.0.2 does not sanitise and escape the Social Profiles field values before outputting them in attributes, which could allow user with a role as low as contributor to perform Cross-Site Scripting attacks." } ] }, "references": { "reference_data": [ { "refsource": "MISC", "url": "https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/a965aeca-d8f9-4070-aa0d-9c9b95493dda", "name": "https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/a965aeca-d8f9-4070-aa0d-9c9b95493dda" } ] }, "problemtype": { "problemtype_data": [ { "description": [ { "value": "CWE-79 Cross-site Scripting (XSS)", "lang": "eng" } ] } ] }, "credit": [ { "lang": "eng", "value": "Francesco Carlucci" } ], "source": { "discovery": "EXTERNAL" } }