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medium 4.8

CVE-2021-24444 json

TaxoPress < 3.0.7.2 - Authenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)

published 5y ago modified 4mo ago also EUVD-2021-11356

cvss
4.8
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
2.3%
EPSS 2.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 83%
public exploits
1
Exploit-DB

Summary

The TaxoPress – Create and Manage Taxonomies, Tags, Categories WordPress plugin before 3.0.7.2 does not sanitise its Taxonomy description field, allowing high privilege users to set JavaScript payload in them even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed, leading to an authenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting issue.

Patch / fix

  • taxopress taxopress 3.0.7.2

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Timeline

  1. Published
  2. First public exploit (EDB-50442)

Exploit prediction

2.32% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 83% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

Exploits and checks

  • EDB-50442 WordPress Plugin TaxoPress 3.0.7.1 - Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) (Authenticated) webapps, 2021-10-25
  • wpscan.com https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/a31321fe-adc6-4480-a220-35aedca52b8b referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 4.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
NVD 2.0 3.5 AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N

Affected products

  • Unknown TaxoPress – Create and Manage Taxonomies, Tags, Categories

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation
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References

Sources

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