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CVE-2021-24366
Admin Columns Free < 4.3 & Pro < 5.5.1 - Admin+ Stored XSS in Label
Medium5.4EPSS 1.00%
- Published
- Updated
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- Assigned by
- WPScan
Description
The Admin Columns WordPress plugin before 4.3 and Admin Columns Pro WordPress plugin before 5.5.1 do not sanitise and escape its Label settings, which could allow high privilege users such as admin to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed (for example in multisite setup)
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| CISA-ADPADP (enrichment) | 3.1 | Medium5.4 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Medium5.4 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.00% · top 37% of all CVEs (6 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: poc · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.4.
Weakness
- CWE-79 Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
Affected products
- affected 3.0 – < 4.3
- affected < 5.5.1
References (3)
- https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/05427156-4d5c-4aeb-add8-1c574fda5c28 (opens in a new tab)exploitvdb-entrytechnical-descriptionx_transferred
- https://www.whitesourcesoftware.com/vulnerability-database/CVE-2021-24366 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://github.com/codepress/admin-columns/commit/b45571ed21d574d13687213a5002e0c68e4442c7 (opens in a new tab)patchx_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 Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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