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CVE-2021-24600: WP Dialog <= 1.2.5.5 - Authenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2021-09-20 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

The WP Dialog WordPress plugin through 1.2.5.5 does not sanitise and escape some of its settings before outputting them in pages, allowing high privilege users to perform Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed.

Affected products

• WP Dialog: through 1.2.5.5

References

• https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/413b3a2e-1c05-45ec-b00f-1c137a1ae33e
• https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/413b3a2e-1c05-45ec-b00f-1c137a1ae33e

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