| Title | WordPress JH 404 Logger <=1.1 - Cross-Site Scripting |
|---|---|
| Author | Ganofins |
| Severity | Medium |
| Impact | Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary JavaScript code in the context of the victim's browser, leading to potential data theft or unauthorized actions. |
| Remediation | Update to the latest version of WordPress JH 404 Logger plugin (>=1.2) which addresses the XSS vulnerability. |
| CVSS Score | 5.4 |
| EPSS Score | 0.21335 |
| CVE ID | CVE-2021-24176 |
| CWE ID | CWE-79 |
| Tags | cve2021 cve wordpress wp-plugin xss wpscan jh_404_logger_project vuln |
WordPress JH 404 Logger plugin through 1.1 contains a cross-site scripting vulnerability. Referer and path of 404 pages are not properly sanitized when they are output in the WordPress dashboard, which can lead to executing arbitrary JavaScript code.
GET /wp-content/plugins/jh-404-logger/readme.txt HTTP/1.1
Host: www.victim.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; WOW64; rv:41.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/140.0.4 (x64 de)
Connection: close
Accept: */*
Accept-Language: en
Accept-Encoding: gzip
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