4.8

CVE-2021-24323: automattic woocommerce Cross-site Scripting

CVSS: 4.8v3.1MediumModified
Published 17-05-2021Last modified 03-08-2024
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2021-24323 is a medium (CVSS 4.8) Cross-site Scripting vulnerability in automattic woocommerce. EPSS estimates a 0.74% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 53.9% of scored vulnerabilities. 1 public exploit is recorded. Fixed in 5.2.0.

Overall risk
29/100
0100
Medium · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
4.8/10
010
Medium · v3.1 (NVD)
EPSS score
0.74%
0%100%
Low · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits1reference

Timeline

  1. 17-05-2021
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 03-08-2024
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

When taxes are enabled, the "Additional tax classes" field was not properly sanitised or escaped before being output back in the admin dashboard, allowing high privilege users such as admin to use XSS payloads even when the unfiltered_html is disabled

CVSS metrics

3 scores · 2 sources · 2 versions

EPSS trend

Probability

0.74%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

54%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

0.00 pp

From 0.74% on 20-09-2026

20-09-202620-10-2026
EPSS score
0.74%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

1 found
  • referenceUnverified

    Exploit Reference (wpscan.com)

    Maturity: unknown

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Automattic1 product
Woocommerce1 product
Wordpress1 product
  • woocommerce< 5.2.0

3 vendors · 3 products

References

2 links