What is CVE-2021-24830?

CVE-2021-24830 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Vasyltech Advanced Access Manager, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 4.8/10. Published 2021-11-23.

How severe is CVE-2021-24830?

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

Is CVE-2021-24830 known to be exploited?

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

XSS in Vasyltech Advanced Access Manager

CVE-2021-24830

The Advanced Access Manager WordPress plugin before 6.8.0 does not escape some of its settings when outputting them, allowing high privilege users to perform Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed

Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)

EPSS: 0.007 (47.6th 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

Vasyltech Advanced_access_manager
Unknown Advanced Access Manager — versions 6.8.0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting

Public proof-of-concept exploits

20142995/nuclei-templates

References

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

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2021-24830?: CVE-2021-24830 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Vasyltech Advanced Access Manager, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 4.8/10. Published 2021-11-23.
How severe is CVE-2021-24830?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.8 out of 10.
Is CVE-2021-24830 known to be exploited?: 1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.