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CVE-2021-24366

Published: Jun 21, 2021

Modified: May 5, 2025

PUBLISHED

Description

The Admin Columns WordPress plugin before 4.3 and Admin Columns Pro WordPress plugin before 5.5.1 do not sanitise and escape its Label settings, which could allow high privilege users such as admin to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed (for example in multisite setup)

Vendor	Product	Versions
Unknown	Admin Columns	affected `3.0 - < 4.3`
Unknown	Admin Columns Pro	affected `0 - < 5.5.1`

References

https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/05427156-4d5c-4aeb-add8-1c574fda5c28

exploit

vdb-entry

technical-description

https://www.whitesourcesoftware.com/vulnerability-database/CVE-2021-24366

https://github.com/codepress/admin-columns/commit/b45571ed21d574d13687213a5002e0c68e4442c7

patch

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