CVE-2021-24796
Published: 17 November 2021
Summary
CVE-2021-24796 is a medium-severity Cross-site Scripting (CWE-79) vulnerability in My Tickets Project My Tickets. Its CVSS base score is 6.1 (Medium).
Operationally, ranked in the top 5.8% 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-2021-11708
Vulnerability details
The My Tickets WordPress plugin before 1.8.31 does not properly sanitise and escape the Email field of booked tickets before outputting it in the Payment admin dashboard, which could allow unauthenticated users to perform Cross-Site Scripting attacks against admins
- 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.