CVE-2021-24596
Published: 20 September 2021
Summary
CVE-2021-24596 is a medium-severity Cross-site Scripting (CWE-79) vulnerability in Itservicejung Youforms-Free-For-Copecart. Its CVSS base score is 4.8 (Medium).
Operationally, ranked at the 45.4th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog; a public proof-of-concept is referenced.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2021-11508
Vulnerability details
The youForms for WordPress plugin through 1.0.5 does not sanitise escape the Button Text field of its Templates, allowing high privilege users (editors and admins) to perform Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed
- 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.