Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Jan 3, 2022· Updated May 22, 2025
LiteSpeed Cache < 4.4.4 - IP Check Bypass to Unauthenticated Stored XSS
CVE-2021-24964
Description
The LiteSpeed Cache WordPress plugin before 4.4.4 does not properly verify that requests are coming from QUIC.cloud servers, allowing attackers to make requests to certain endpoints by using a specific X-Forwarded-For header value. In addition, one of the endpoint could be used to set CSS code if a setting is enabled, which will then be output in some pages without being sanitised and escaped. Combining those two issues, an unauthenticated attacker could put Cross-Site Scripting payloads in pages visited by users.
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Affected products
2- WordPress/LiteSpeed Cachedescription
- Range: <4.4.4
Patches
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References
1- wpscan.com/vulnerability/e9966b3e-2eb9-4d70-8c18-6a829b4827ccmitrex_refsource_MISC
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