CVE-2021-24296
WP Customer Reviews < 3.5.6 - Authenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
The WP Customer Reviews WordPress plugin before 3.5.6 did not sanitise some of its settings, allowing high privilege users such as administrators to set XSS payloads in them which will then be triggered in pages where reviews are enabled
Attack profile
How easy it is to exploit
- Attack vector
- Network
- Complexity
- Low
- Privileges needed
- High
- User interaction
- Required
What an attacker can affect
- Confidentiality
- Low
- Integrity
- Low
- Availability
- None
Exploit likelihood
What each source reports
NVD Score used
The WP Customer Reviews WordPress plugin before 3.5.6 did not sanitise some of its settings, allowing high privilege users such as administrators to set XSS payloads in them which will then be triggered in pages where reviews are enabled
- Record
CVE-2021-24296- CVSS 3.1
- 4.8 Medium
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N - CVSS 2.0
- 3.5 Low
AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N - Weakness
- CWE-79
- Updated
- 2026-11-02
CVE List No score
WP Customer Reviews < 3.5.6 - Authenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
The WP Customer Reviews WordPress plugin before 3.5.6 did not sanitise some of its settings, allowing high privilege users such as administrators to set XSS payloads in them which will then be triggered in pages where reviews are enabled
- Record
CVE-2021-24296- Weakness
- CWE-79
- Updated
- 2026-11-02
EUVDEUVD-2021-11210 No score
The WP Customer Reviews WordPress plugin before 3.5.6 did not sanitise some of its settings, allowing high privilege users such as administrators to set XSS payloads in them which will then be triggered in pages where reviews are enabled
- Record
EUVD-2021-11210- Updated
- 2026-11-03
GitHub AdvisoriesGHSA-r7g7-h9q3-437j No score
The WP Customer Reviews WordPress plugin before 3.5.6 did not sanitise some of its settings,...
The WP Customer Reviews WordPress plugin before 3.5.6 did not sanitise some of its settings, allowing high privilege users such as administrators to set XSS payloads in them which will then be triggered in pages where reviews are enabled
- Record
GHSA-r7g7-h9q3-437j- Weakness
- CWE-79
- Updated
- 2026-11-02
Affected products
History
| Recorded | Changed | Sources |
|---|---|---|
| aliases, products | EUVD | |
| first indexed | CVE List, GitHub Advisories, NVD |
Dates are when Every CVE recorded each change. Upstream dates may differ.
In short
CVE-2021-24296 is a medium vulnerability (CVSS 4.8) in Bompus Wp Customer Reviews, published May 24, 2021. No source lists public exploit code. EPSS puts the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days at 0.62%, the 49th percentile. No source names a fixed version.