CVE-2021-24523
Published: 13 September 2021
Summary
CVE-2021-24523 is a medium-severity Cross-site Scripting (CWE-79) vulnerability in Mmrs151 Daily Prayer Time. Its CVSS base score is 5.4 (Medium).
Operationally, ranked in the top 40.9% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog; a public proof-of-concept is referenced.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2021-11435
Vulnerability details
The Daily Prayer Time WordPress plugin before 2021.08.10 does not sanitise or escape some of its settings before outputting them in the page, leading to Authenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting issues.
- CWE(s)
Related Threats
No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.
Affected Assets
Mitigating Controls
Likely Mitigating Controls AI
Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.
Penetration testing submits XSS payloads to web applications, detecting cross-site scripting flaws for subsequent remediation.
Validates web inputs to reject script-related content that could produce XSS.
Output validation against expected content can reject or sanitize script content in generated web pages, reducing XSS exploitability.