MidnightBSD

Advisories for wp_html_author_bio_project

CVE-2021-24545 LOW

The WP HTML Author Bio WordPress plugin through 1.2.0 does not sanitise the HTML allowed in the Bio of users, allowing them to use malicious JavaScript code, which will be executed when anyone visit a post in the frontend made by such user. As a result, user with a role as low as author could perform Cross-Site Scripting attacks against users, which could potentially lead to privilege escalation when an admin view the related post/s.

CVSS 3.x

Source Score Severity Vector Exploitability Impact
nvd@nist.gov 5.4 MEDIUM CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N 2.3 2.7

CVSS 2.0

Severity: LOW

Problem Type: CWE-79,

Products Affected

Vendor Product Version
wp_html_author_bio_project wp_html_author_bio *