Unsanitized Settings in Helpful WordPress Plugin Allows Cross-Site Scripting Attacks

Unsanitized Settings in Helpful WordPress Plugin Allows Cross-Site Scripting Attacks

CVE-2021-24841 · MEDIUM Severity

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

The Helpful WordPress plugin before 4.4.59 does not sanitise and escape some of its settings, which could allow high privilege users to perform Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed

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