2021-24538 | Current Book Plugin Title cross site scripting

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A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in Current Book Plugin up to 1.0.1 on WordPress (WordPress Plugin). Affected by this issue is an unknown code block of the component Title Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a cross site scripting vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-79. Impacted is integrity. An attacker might be able to inject arbitrary html and script code into the web site. This would alter the appearance and would make it possible to initiate further attacks against site visitors. CVE summarizes:

The Current Book WordPress plugin through 1.0.1 does not sanitize user input when an authenticated user adds Author or Book Title, then does not escape these values when outputting to the browser leading to an Authenticated Stored XSS Cross-Site Scripting issue.

The weakness was published 08/16/2021. The advisory is shared for download at wpscan.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2021-24538 since 01/14/2021. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be launched remotely. The requirement for exploitation is a simple authentication. Successful exploitation requires user interaction by the victim. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available. The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1059.007.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

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VulDB Meta Base Score: 3.5
VulDB Meta Temp Score: 3.4

VulDB Base Score: 3.5
VulDB Temp Score: 3.4
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Class: Cross site scripting
CWE: CWE-79
ATT&CK: T1059.007

Local: No
Remote: Yes

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01/14/2021 CVE assigned
08/16/2021 +213 days Advisory disclosed
08/16/2021 +0 days VulDB entry created
08/18/2021 +2 days VulDB last updateAdvisory: wpscan.com
Status: Not defined

CVE: CVE-2021-24538 (🔒)

Created: 08/16/2021 15:02
Updated: 08/18/2021 16:47
Changes: (2) source_cve_assigned source_cve_nvd_summary
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