Vulnerability CVE-2021-39349
Published: 2021-10-15

Description:
The Author Bio Box WordPress plugin is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting due to insufficient input validation and sanitization via several parameters found in the ~/includes/admin/class-author-bio-box-admin.php file which allowed attackers with administrative user access to inject arbitrary web scripts, in versions up to and including 3.3.1. This affects multi-site installations where unfiltered_html is disabled for administrators, and sites where unfiltered_html is disabled.

Type:

CWE-79

 (Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting'))

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:H/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
2.1/10
2.9/10
3.9/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
High
Single time
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
Partial
None
Affected software
Author bio box project -> Author bio box 

 References:
https://github.com/BigTiger2020/word-press/blob/main/Author%20Bio%20Box.md
https://www.wordfence.com/vulnerability-advisories/#CVE-2021-39349
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/2613798/author-bio-box/tags/3.3.2/includes/admin/class-author-bio-box-admin.php
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