CVE-2021-24308

EUVD-2021-11222

24.05.2021, 11:15

The 'State' field of the Edit profile page of the LMS by LifterLMS – Online Course, Membership & Learning Management System Plugin for WordPress plugin before 4.21.1 is not properly sanitised when output in the About section of the profile page, leading to a stored Cross-Site Scripting issue. This could allow low privilege users (such as students) to elevate their privilege via an XSS attack when an admin will view their profile.

Cross-site Scripting

Provider	Type	Base Score	Atk. Vector	Atk. Complexity	Priv. Required	Vector
NIST	Primary	5.4 MEDIUM	NETWORK	LOW	LOW	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Base Score

CVSS 3.x

EPSS Score

Percentile: 50%

Affected Products (NVD)

Vendor	Product	Version
lifterlms	lifterlms	𝑥 < 4.21.1

𝑥

= Vulnerable software versions

Known Exploits!

Common Weakness Enumeration

CWE-79 - Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
The software does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes user-controllable input before it is placed in output that is used as a web page that is served to other users.

References

http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/162856/WordPress-LifterLMS-4.21.0-Cross-Site-Scripting.html

https://github.com/gocodebox/lifterlms/releases/tag/4.21.1

https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/f29f68a5-6575-441d-98c9-867145f2b082

http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/162856/WordPress-LifterLMS-4.21.0-Cross-Site-Scripting.html

https://github.com/gocodebox/lifterlms/releases/tag/4.21.1

https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/f29f68a5-6575-441d-98c9-867145f2b082