{"id":"CVE-2021-24901","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2021-24901","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T04:17:00.687Z","title":"The Security Audit WordPress plugin through 1.0.0 does not sanitise and escape the Data Id setting, which could allow high privilege users to perform Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed.","description":"The Security Audit WordPress plugin through 1.0.0 does not sanitise and escape the Data Id setting, which could allow high privilege users to perform Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed.","published":"2022-02-28T09:15:08.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T03:41:06.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"contact@wpscan.com","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":4.8,"severity":"MEDIUM","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N"},"cwe":["CWE-79"],"affected":["securemoz/security audit"],"epss":{"score":0.05063,"percentile":0.92274,"date":"2026-10-27","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":1,"verified":false,"firstPublished":"2022-02-08","source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[{"edbId":50723,"kind":"exploit","title":"WordPress Plugin Security Audit 1.0.0 - Stored Cross Site Scripting (XSS)","url":"https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/50723","sourceUrl":"https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb/-/blob/main/exploits/php/webapps/50723.txt","file":"exploits/php/webapps/50723.txt","published":"2022-02-08","added":"2022-02-08","updated":"2022-02-08","author":"Shweta Mahajan","type":"webapps","platform":"php","port":null,"verified":false,"codes":["CVE-2021-24901"],"tags":null,"aliases":null,"applicationUrl":null,"screenshotUrl":null,"referenceUrl":null}]},"verdict":{"level":"high","text":"A public exploit is published in Exploit-DB, so the technical barrier is gone even though the severity is medium and EPSS is 5.1%. Treat it as high on anything reachable from the internet."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/9c315404-b66a-448c-a3b7-367a37b53435","tags":["Exploit","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"contact@wpscan.com"},{"url":"https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/9c315404-b66a-448c-a3b7-367a37b53435","tags":["Exploit","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-24901","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."}