What is CVE-2021-24243?

CVE-2021-24243 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Bitorbit Wpbakery Page Builder (Visual Composer) Clipboard, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 5.4/10. Published 2021-05-06.

How severe is CVE-2021-24243?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.4 out of 10.

Is CVE-2021-24243 known to be exploited?

1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

XSS in Bitorbit Wpbakery Page Builder (Visual Composer) Clipboard

CVE-2021-24243

An AJAX action registered by the WPBakery Page Builder (Visual Composer) Clipboard WordPress plugin before 4.5.6 did not have capability checks nor sanitization, allowing low privilege users (subscriber+) to call it and set XSS payloads, w…

Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)

EPSS: 0.007 (48.6th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.4 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N.

Affected products

Bitorbit Wpbakery Page Builder (Visual Composer) Clipboard — versions 4.5.0, 4.5.6
Wpbakery_page_builder_clipboard_project Wpbakery_page_builder_clipboard

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting

Public proof-of-concept exploits

20142995/nuclei-templates

References

contact@wpscan.com (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Exploit, Third Party Advisory)
contact@wpscan.com (Product, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2021-24243?: CVE-2021-24243 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Bitorbit Wpbakery Page Builder (Visual Composer) Clipboard, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 5.4/10. Published 2021-05-06.
How severe is CVE-2021-24243?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.4 out of 10.
Is CVE-2021-24243 known to be exploited?: 1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.