CVE-2021-24245

MEDIUM NUCLEI

Trumani Stop Spammers < 2021.9 - XSS

Title source: rule

Description

The Stop Spammers WordPress plugin before 2021.9 did not escape user input when blocking requests (such as matching a spam word), outputting it in an attribute after sanitising it to remove HTML tags, which is not sufficient and lead to a reflected Cross-Site Scripting issue.

Exploits (1)

exploitdb WORKING POC

by Hosein Vita · textwebappsphp

https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/49880

View Code ZIP pw:eip

Nuclei Templates (1)

WordPress Stop Spammers <2021.9 - Cross-Site Scripting

MEDIUMby edoardottt

References (2)

[Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry] http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/162623/WordPress-Stop-Spammers-2021.8-Cross-Site-Scripting.html

[Exploit, Third Party Advisory] https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/5e7accd6-08dc-4c6e-9d19-73e2d7e97735

Scores

CVSS v3 6.1

EPSS 0.1794

EPSS Percentile 95.2%

Attack Vector NETWORK

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Details

CWE

CWE-79

Status published

Products (1)

trumani/stop_spammers < 2021.9

Published May 06, 2021

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026