What is CVE-2021-24323?

CVE-2021-24323 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Automattic Woocommerce, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 4.8/10. Published 2021-05-17.

How severe is CVE-2021-24323?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.8 out of 10.

Is CVE-2021-24323 known to be exploited?

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

XSS in Automattic Woocommerce

CVE-2021-24323

When taxes are enabled, the "Additional tax classes" field was not properly sanitised or escaped before being output back in the admin dashboard, allowing high privilege users such as admin to use XSS payloads even when the unfiltered_html…

Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)

EPSS: 0.007 (50.1th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 4.8 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N.

Affected products

Automattic Woocommerce — versions 5.2.0
Woocommerce

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)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2021-24323?: CVE-2021-24323 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Automattic Woocommerce, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 4.8/10. Published 2021-05-17.
How severe is CVE-2021-24323?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.8 out of 10.
Is CVE-2021-24323 known to be exploited?: 1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.