CVE-2021-24539
What it is
The Coming Soon, Under Construction & Maintenance Mode By Dazzler WordPress plugin before 1.6.7 does not sanitise or escape its description setting when outputting it in the frontend when the Coming Soon mode is enabled, even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed, leading to an authenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting issue
At a glance
- Exploitability
- Can be exploited over the network with an admin-level account, but needs a user to act. Limited direct impact.
- Exploit odds
- 0.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS).
- Fix
- No patch or advisory is linked yet. Look at mitigations or restrict exposure.
Timeline
- PublishedDisclosed publicly on CVE.org and NVD
- Last updatedMost recent change to the record
Why it ranks here
- Exploited in the wild: no, CISA does not list it.
- Exploit odds: 0.6% in the next 30 days (EPSS).
- Severity: 4.8 MEDIUM (CVSS).
- Fix: none linked yet, which raises it.
Details
- Published
- Last modified
- Exploit probability
- 0.6% · EPSS, next 30 days
- Weakness
- CWE-79 · Cross-site scripting
- Record status
- Modified
Affected
- Dazzlersoftware Coming soon\, Under Construction \& Maintenance Mode By Dazzler < 1.6.7
Attack profile CVSS 3.1 · 4.8
- Attack vector
- Network
- Complexity
- Low
- Privileges needed
- High
- User interaction
- Required
- Scope
- Changed
- Confidentiality
- Low
- Integrity
- Low
- Availability
- None
Raw vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
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