CVE-2021-24366

Admin Columns Free < 4.3 & Pro < 5.5.1 - Admin+ Stored XSS in Label

State: Published
Severity: 5.4 Medium
Published: Jun 21, 2021
Updated: May 5, 2025
Reserved: Jan 14, 2021

Description

The Admin Columns WordPress plugin before 4.3 and Admin Columns Pro WordPress plugin before 5.5.1 do not sanitise and escape its Label settings, which could allow high privilege users such as admin to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed (for example in multisite setup)

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	5.4 Medium	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N	CISA-ADP

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

Product	Versions
Admin ColumnsUnknown	3.0 to before 4.3Affected
Admin Columns ProUnknown	before 5.5.1Affected

References

https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/05427156-4d5c-4aeb-add8-1c574fda5c28exploitvdb-entrytechnical-description
https://www.whitesourcesoftware.com/vulnerability-database/CVE-2021-24366
https://github.com/codepress/admin-columns/commit/b45571ed21d574d13687213a5002e0c68e4442c7patch

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