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CVE-2021-24745: About Author Box < 1.0.2 - Contributor+ Stored Cross-Site Scripting

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.4 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: 2021-11-29 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

The About Author Box WordPress plugin before 1.0.2 does not sanitise and escape the Social Profiles field values before outputting them in attributes, which could allow user with a role as low as contributor to perform Cross-Site Scripting attacks.

Affected products

• About Author Box: before 1.0.2 — fixed in 1.0.2

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: About Author Box 1.0.2. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/a965aeca-d8f9-4070-aa0d-9c9b95493dda
• https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/a965aeca-d8f9-4070-aa0d-9c9b95493dda

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