Medium severity4.8NVD Advisory· Published Aug 2, 2021· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2021-24450
CVE-2021-24450
Description
The User Registration, User Profiles, Login & Membership – ProfilePress (Formerly WP User Avatar) WordPress plugin before 3.1.8 did not sanitise or escape some of its settings before saving them and outputting them back in the page, allowing high privilege users such as admin to set JavaScript payloads in them even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed, leading to an authenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting issue
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Affected products
2- WordPress/User Registration, User Profiles, Login & Membership – ProfilePressdescription
Patches
Vulnerability mechanics
References
1- wpscan.com/vulnerability/a8625579-fe8f-4bc1-a641-0e26ad141c92nvdExploitThird Party Advisory
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