CVE-2021-24724
Published: 13 September 2021
Summary
CVE-2021-24724 is a medium-severity Cross-site Scripting (CWE-79) vulnerability in Motopress Timetable And Event Schedule. Its CVSS base score is 5.4 (Medium).
Operationally, ranked at the 48.8th 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-2021-11636
Vulnerability details
The Timetable and Event Schedule by MotoPress WordPress plugin before 2.3.19 does not sanitise some of its parameters, which could allow low privilege users such as author to perform XSS attacks against frontend and backend users when viewing the related…
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- 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.