CVE-2021-24904
The Mortgage Calculators WP WordPress plugin before 1.56 does not implement any sanitisation on the color setting of the background of a calculator, which could allow high privilege users to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the…
Does this matter?
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.
Description
The Mortgage Calculators WP WordPress plugin before 1.56 does not implement any sanitisation on the color setting of the background of a calculator, which could allow high privilege users to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed.
- CVSS 3.1
- 4.8 MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
- EPSS
- 5.06% probability · 92th percentile
- Public exploits
- 1 in Exploit-DB · first 27 January 2022
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-79
- Affected
- lenderd/mortgage calculators wp
- Source
- contact@wpscan.com
EPSS 5.1% 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.
References
- https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/7b80f89b-e724-41c5-aa03-21d1eef50f21Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/7b80f89b-e724-41c5-aa03-21d1eef50f21Exploit, Third Party Advisory
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.