SOC status:Duty analyst on shift

UK Cyber Defence
VulnerabilityModified

CVE-2021-24488

The slider import search feature and tab parameter of the Post Grid WordPress plugin before 2.1.8 settings are not properly sanitised before being output back in the pages, leading to Reflected Cross-Site Scripting issues

EXPLOITMEDIUM 6.1EPSS 11.2%

Does this matter?

EPSS puts the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days at 11.2%, higher than 96% of all known CVEs. Patch or mitigate before the next change window.

Description

The slider import search feature and tab parameter of the Post Grid WordPress plugin before 2.1.8 settings are not properly sanitised before being output back in the pages, leading to Reflected Cross-Site Scripting issues

CVSS 3.1
6.1 MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
EPSS
11.24% probability · 96th percentile
Public exploits
1 in Exploit-DB · first 2 February 2022
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness
CWE-79
Affected
pickplugins/post grid
Source
contact@wpscan.com
EPSS trend
0%8%15%26 October 2026: 11.24%26 October 202626 October 2026

EPSS 11.2% since 26 October 2026; no change recorded yet. The dashed line is the ten per cent mark our analysts treat as “patch before the next change window”. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.

Public exploits (1)

Entries in Exploit-DB that cite this CVE. Links go to the Exploit-DB page and to the file in the public repository; nothing is hosted here. A verified tick means the Exploit-DB team confirmed the exploit works against the stated version.

EDB-IDTitleTypePublishedVerified
EDB-50705source ↗WordPress Plugin Post Grid 2.1.1 - Cross Site Scripting (XSS)php · 0xB9webapps2 February 2022no

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.