CVE-2021-24443

MediumCVSS 5.4/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

Description

The About Me widget of the Youzify – BuddyPress Community, User Profile, Social Network & Membership WordPress plugin before 1.0.7 does not properly sanitise its Biography field, allowing any authenticated user to set Cross-Site Scripting payloads in it, which will be executed when viewing the affected user profile. This could allow a low privilege user to gain unauthorised access to the admin side of the blog by targeting an admin, inducing them to view their profile with a malicious payload adding a rogue account for example.

Metrics

CVSS 3.1 5.4/10CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Weakness enumeration

CWE-79

Affected software

VendorProductVersions
UnknownYouzify – BuddyPress Community, User Profile, Social Network & Membership Plugin for WordPress>= 1.0.7, < 1.0.7

References

Timeline

Published
Aug 2, 2021
Last modified
Jun 17, 2026
NVD status
Modified

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CVE-2021-24443: Medium severity, CVSS 5.4 | Vulnix