CVE-2021-24785
Great Quotes <= 1.0.0 - Admin+ Stored Cross-Site Scripting
The Great Quotes WordPress plugin through 1.0.0 does not sanitise and escape the Quote and Author fields of its Quotes, which could allow high privilege users to perform Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html is disallowed.
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 Great Quotes WordPress plugin through 1.0.0 does not sanitise and escape the Quote and Author fields of its Quotes, which could allow high privilege users to perform Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html is disallowed.
- Record
CVE-2021-24785- 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
Great Quotes <= 1.0.0 - Admin+ Stored Cross-Site Scripting
The Great Quotes WordPress plugin through 1.0.0 does not sanitise and escape the Quote and Author fields of its Quotes, which could allow high privilege users to perform Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html is disallowed.
- Record
CVE-2021-24785- Weakness
- CWE-79
- Updated
- 2026-11-02
EUVDEUVD-2021-11697 No score
The Great Quotes WordPress plugin through 1.0.0 does not sanitise and escape the Quote and Author fields of its Quotes, which could allow high privilege users to perform Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html is disallowed.
- Record
EUVD-2021-11697- Updated
- 2026-11-03
GitHub AdvisoriesGHSA-rpff-wccp-7hw7 No score
The Great Quotes WordPress plugin through 1.0.0 does not sanitise and escape the Quote and Author...
The Great Quotes WordPress plugin through 1.0.0 does not sanitise and escape the Quote and Author fields of its Quotes, which could allow high privilege users to perform Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html is disallowed.
- Record
GHSA-rpff-wccp-7hw7- Weakness
- CWE-79
- Updated
- 2026-11-02
Affected products
History
| Recorded | Changed | Sources |
|---|---|---|
| aliases | EUVD | |
| first indexed | CVE List, GitHub Advisories, NVD |
Dates are when Every CVE recorded each change. Upstream dates may differ.
In short
CVE-2021-24785 is a medium vulnerability (CVSS 4.8) in Unknown Great Quotes, published October 25, 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.