{"id":"CVE-2021-24593","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2021-24593","generatedAt":"2026-10-27T21:19:46.311Z","title":"The Business Hours Indicator WordPress plugin before 2.3.5 does not sanitise or escape its 'Now closed message\" setting when outputting it in the backend and frontend, leading to an Authenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting issue","description":"The Business Hours Indicator WordPress plugin before 2.3.5 does not sanitise or escape its 'Now closed message\" setting when outputting it in the backend and frontend, leading to an Authenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting issue","published":"2021-08-30T15:15:08.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T03:40:18.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"contact@wpscan.com","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":5.4,"severity":"MEDIUM","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N"},"cwe":["CWE-79"],"affected":["business hours indicator project/business hours indicator"],"epss":{"score":0.0062,"percentile":0.49414,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"low","text":"Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.62%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/309296d4-c397-4fc7-85fb-a28b5b5b6a8d","tags":["Exploit","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"contact@wpscan.com"},{"url":"https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/309296d4-c397-4fc7-85fb-a28b5b5b6a8d","tags":["Exploit","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-24593","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}