CVE-2021-24850
Insert Pages < 3.7.0 - Contributor+ Stored Cross-Site Scripting
The Insert Pages WordPress plugin before 3.7.0 adds a shortcode that prints out other pages' content and custom fields. It can be used by users with a role as low as Contributor to perform Cross-Site Scripting attacks by storing the payload/s in another post's custom fields.
Attack profile
How easy it is to exploit
- Attack vector
- Network
- Complexity
- Low
- Privileges needed
- Low
- User interaction
- Required
What an attacker can affect
- Confidentiality
- Low
- Integrity
- Low
- Availability
- None
Exploit likelihood
What each source reports
NVD Score used
The Insert Pages WordPress plugin before 3.7.0 adds a shortcode that prints out other pages' content and custom fields. It can be used by users with a role as low as Contributor to perform Cross-Site Scripting attacks by storing the payload/s in another post's custom fields.
- Record
CVE-2021-24850- CVSS 3.1
- 5.4 Medium
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/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
Insert Pages < 3.7.0 - Contributor+ Stored Cross-Site Scripting
The Insert Pages WordPress plugin before 3.7.0 adds a shortcode that prints out other pages' content and custom fields. It can be used by users with a role as low as Contributor to perform Cross-Site Scripting attacks by storing the payload/s in another post's custom fields.
- Record
CVE-2021-24850- Weakness
- CWE-79
- Updated
- 2026-11-02
EUVDEUVD-2021-11762 No score
The Insert Pages WordPress plugin before 3.7.0 adds a shortcode that prints out other pages' content and custom fields. It can be used by users with a role as low as Contributor to perform Cross-Site Scripting attacks by storing the payload/s in another post's custom fields.
- Record
EUVD-2021-11762- Updated
- 2026-11-03
GitHub AdvisoriesGHSA-qg2h-c753-hvx6 No score
The Insert Pages WordPress plugin before 3.7.0 adds a shortcode that prints out other pages'...
The Insert Pages WordPress plugin before 3.7.0 adds a shortcode that prints out other pages' content and custom fields. It can be used by users with a role as low as Contributor to perform Cross-Site Scripting attacks by storing the payload/s in another post's custom fields.
- Record
GHSA-qg2h-c753-hvx6- 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-2021-24850 is a medium vulnerability (CVSS 5.4) in Insert Pages Project Pages, published November 17, 2021. No source lists public exploit code. EPSS puts the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days at 0.62%, the 50th percentile. No source names a fixed version.