{"id":"CVE-2021-24517","aliases":["EUVD-2021-11429","GHSA-fp6q-wmwj-3m9p"],"status":"published","title":"Stop Spammers Security \u003c 2021.18 - Authenticated Stored XSS","description":"The Stop Spammers Security | Block Spam Users, Comments, Forms WordPress plugin before 2021.18 does not escape some of its settings, allowing high privilege users such as admin to set Cross-Site Scripting payloads in them even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed","severity":{"version":"3.1","score":5.4,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N","level":"medium","assessor":"primary","from":"nvd"},"epss":{"day":"2026-11-11","score":0.00624,"percentile":0.5039,"model":"v2026.06.15"},"facts":{"in_kev":false,"known_exploited":false,"public_exploit":false,"fix_available":false},"cwes":["CWE-79"],"published":"2021-09-06T11:09:26Z","modified":"2026-06-17T03:40:10Z","products":[{"vendor":"trumani","product":"stop_spammers"},{"vendor":"unknown","product":"stop spammers security | block spam users, comments, forms"}],"references":[{"url":"https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/f440edd8-94fe-440a-8a5b-e3d24dcfcbc1","tags":["x_refsource_MISC","x_transferred","Exploit","Third Party Advisory"]},{"url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-24517"},{"url":"https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-fp6q-wmwj-3m9p"}],"sources":{"cve":[{"id":"CVE-2021-24517","title":"Stop Spammers Security \u003c 2021.18 - Authenticated Stored XSS","description":"The Stop Spammers Security | Block Spam Users, Comments, Forms WordPress plugin before 2021.18 does not escape some of its settings, allowing high privilege users such as admin to set Cross-Site Scripting payloads in them even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed","status":"published","published":"2021-09-06T11:09:26Z","modified":"2024-08-03T19:35:19.868Z","cwes":["CWE-79"],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T14:33:05.000797Z"}],"euvd":[{"id":"EUVD-2021-11429","description":"The Stop Spammers Security | Block Spam Users, Comments, Forms WordPress plugin before 2021.18 does not escape some of its settings, allowing high privilege users such as admin to set Cross-Site Scripting payloads in them even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed","status":"published","published":"2021-09-06T11:09:26Z","modified":"2024-08-03T19:35:19Z","updated_at":"2026-11-03T03:24:57.403647Z"}],"ghsa":[{"id":"GHSA-fp6q-wmwj-3m9p","title":"The Stop Spammers Security | Block Spam Users, Comments, Forms WordPress plugin before 2021.18...","description":"The Stop Spammers Security | Block Spam Users, Comments, Forms WordPress plugin before 2021.18 does not escape some of its settings, allowing high privilege users such as admin to set Cross-Site Scripting payloads in them even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed","status":"published","published":"2022-05-24T19:13:05Z","modified":"2023-01-30T05:01:55Z","cwes":["CWE-79"],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T14:46:31.204916Z"}],"nvd":[{"id":"CVE-2021-24517","description":"The Stop Spammers Security | Block Spam Users, Comments, Forms WordPress plugin before 2021.18 does not escape some of its settings, allowing high privilege users such as admin to set Cross-Site Scripting payloads in them even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed","status":"published","published":"2021-09-06T11:15:08.247Z","modified":"2026-06-17T03:40:10.143Z","cvss":[{"version":"3.1","score":5.4,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N","level":"medium","assessor":"primary"},{"version":"2.0","score":3.5,"vector":"AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N","level":"low","assessor":"primary"}],"cwes":["CWE-79"],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T14:06:58.05696Z"}]}}