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CVE-2021-24992 (GCVE-0-2021-24992)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-12-27 10:33 – Updated: 2024-08-03 19:49
VLAI
Title
Buttonizer - Smart Floating Action Button < 2.5.5 - Admin+ Stored Cross-Site Scripting
Summary
The Smart Floating / Sticky Buttons WordPress plugin before 2.5.5 does not sanitise and escape some parameter before outputting them in attributes and page, which could allow high privilege users to perform Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed.
Severity
4.8 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CWE
  • CWE-79 - Cross-site Scripting (XSS)
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Credits
Dipak Panchal
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