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CVE-2021-24323
Woocommerce < 5.2.0 - Authenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
Medium4.8EPSS 0.74%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- WPScan
Description
When taxes are enabled, the "Additional tax classes" field was not properly sanitised or escaped before being output back in the admin dashboard, allowing high privilege users such as admin to use XSS payloads even when the unfiltered_html is disabled
Timeline
ID reserved
By WPScan
- 4 months later
· 4 months later
Published
- 3 years later
· 3 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Medium4.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.74% · top 45% of all CVEs (7 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.8.
Weakness
Affected products
- affected 5.2.0 – < 5.2.0
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- Packagistwoocommerce/woocommerceGHSA-mp46-7x6q-f28m (opens in a new tab)
References (1)
- https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/6d262555-7ae4-4e36-add6-4baa34dc3010 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-mp46-7x6q-f28m (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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