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CVE-2021-24785: Great Quotes <= 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: 2021-10-25 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

The Great Quotes WordPress plugin through 1.0.0 does not sanitise and escape the Quote and Author fields of its Quotes, which could allow high privilege users to perform Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html is disallowed.

Affected products

• Great Quotes: through 1.0.0

References

• https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/3957056c-df25-41f7-ab0d-1d09222f2fa5
• https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/3957056c-df25-41f7-ab0d-1d09222f2fa5

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