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CVE-2021-24543: jQuery Reply to Comment <= 1.31 - CSRF to Stored Cross-Site Scripting

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.1 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2021-10-25 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

The jQuery Reply to Comment WordPress plugin through 1.31 does not have any CSRF check when saving its settings, nor sanitise or escape its 'Quote String' and 'Reply String' settings before outputting them in Comments, leading to a Stored Cross-Site Scripting issue.

Affected products

• jQuery Reply to Comment: through 1.31

References

• https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/aa23f743-811b-4fd1-81a9-42916342e312
• https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/aa23f743-811b-4fd1-81a9-42916342e312

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