CVE-2021-24592 - CVE House
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Status published Medium CVE-2021-24592

Sitewide Notice WP < 2.3 - Authenticated Stored XSS

Vulnerability Description

The Sitewide Notice WP WordPress plugin before 2.3 does not sanitise some of its settings before outputting them in frontend pages, allowing high privilege users to perform Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

The following person or organization is credited with identifying this vulnerability, as recorded in the NVD database:

  • Asif Nawaz Minhas

Affected Vendor

Affected Software

Sitewide Notice WP
Vulnerable Versions:
2.3

Timeline

Official Publish: August 30th, 2021
Last Modified: August 3rd, 2024
Added to House: July 21st, 2026

CVSS Vectors

V3: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Weaknesses (CWE)