CVE-2021-24634
Published: 27 September 2021
Summary
CVE-2021-24634 is a medium-severity Cross-site Scripting (CWE-79) vulnerability in Wpzoom Recipe Card Blocks For Gutenberg \& Elementor. Its CVSS base score is 5.4 (Medium).
Operationally, ranked at the 41.6th 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-2021-11546
Vulnerability details
The Recipe Card Blocks by WPZOOM WordPress plugin before 2.8.3 does not properly sanitise or escape some of the properties of the Recipe Card Block (such as ingredientsLayout, iconSet, steps, ingredients, recipeTitle, or settings), which could allow users with a…
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role as low as contributor to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks.
- 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.