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CVE-2021-24771: Inspirational Quote Rotator <= 1.0.0 - Admin+ 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: 2021-12-13 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

The Inspirational Quote Rotator WordPress plugin through 1.0.0 does not sanitize and escape some of its quote fields when adding/editing a quote as admin, leading to Stored Cross-Site scripting issues when the quote is output in the "Quotes list" even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed

Affected products

• Inspirational Quote Rotator: through 1.0.0

References

• https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/a6d57fda-79a7-4bf8-b18e-8cf0a4efd1b3
• https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/a6d57fda-79a7-4bf8-b18e-8cf0a4efd1b3

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