Security advisory

{
  "id": "2477ecf45a529b2aad4c45a19fec2ff268e06a3fbd9e9fa8c88128bcb00778bc",
  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2021-24308",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "CVE-2021-24308",
    "summary": "The 'State' field of the Edit profile page of the LMS by LifterLMS – Online Course, Membership & Learning Management System Plugin for WordPress plugin before 4.21.1 is not properly sanitised when output in the About section of the profile page, leading to a stored Cross-Site Scripting issue. This could allow low privilege users (such as students) to elevate their privilege via an XSS attack when an admin will view their profile.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2021-24308",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "medium",
    "structured": {
      "id": "CVE-2021-24308",
      "aliases": [
        "CVE-2021-24308"
      ],
      "metrics": [
        {
          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N"
        }
      ],
      "affected": [
        {
          "ranges": [
            {
              "repo": "https://github.com/gocodebox/lifterlms",
              "type": "GIT",
              "events": [
                {
                  "introduced": "0"
                },
                {
                  "fixed": "74bc6cf3f23c32814bc994ec22ce07b94d84b017"
                }
              ],
              "database_specific": {
                "extracted_events": [
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:lifterlms:lifterlms:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "0"
                      },
                      {
                        "fixed": "4.21.1"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_RANGE"
                  },
                  {
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "fixed": "74bc6cf3f23c32814bc994ec22ce07b94d84b017"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "REFERENCES_TAG",
                    "original_tag": "4.21.1"
                  }
                ]
              }
            }
          ],
          "versions": [
            "@lifterlms/scripts@1.3.5",
            "@lifterlms/llms-e2e-test-utils@2.2.2",
            "@lifterlms/llms-e2e-test-utils@2.1.3",
            "@lifterlms/scripts@1.3.2",
            "@lifterlms/scripts@1.3.0",
            "@lifterlms/scripts@1.2.4",
            "@lifterlms/scripts@1.2.3",
            "@lifterlms/llms-e2e-test-utils@2.1.2",
            "@lifterlms/scripts@1.2.1",
            "@lifterlms/llms-e2e-test-utils@2.1.0",
            "@lifterlms/scripts@1.3.1",
            "@lifterlms/scripts@1.2.0",
            "@lifterlms/llms-e2e-test-utils@2.0.0",
            "@lifterlms/llms-e2e-test-utils@1.1.1",
            "llms-e2e-test-utils@1.1.0",
            "llms-e2e-test-utils@1.0.1",
            "llms-e2e-test-utils@1.0.0",
            "3.20.0-beta.1",
            "3.0.0-beta.5",
            "3.0.0-beta.4",
            "3.0.0-beta.3",
            "3.0.0-beta.2",
            "3.0.0-beta.1",
            "1.4.0",
            "1.3.10",
            "1.3.9",
            "1.3.8",
            "1.3.7",
            "1.3.6",
            "1.3.5",
            "1.3.4",
            "v1.3.3",
            "1.3.2",
            "1.3.0",
            "1.2.6",
            "1.2.5",
            "1.2.4",
            "1.1.1",
            "1.0.0"
          ],
          "database_specific": {
            "source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2021-24308.json"
          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-20T10:53:38.799350537Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://github.com/gocodebox/lifterlms/releases/tag/4.21.1",
        "https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/f29f68a5-6575-441d-98c9-867145f2b082"
      ],
      "provider_metadata": {}
    },
    "related_cves": [
      {
        "value": "CVE-2021-24308",
        "evidence": "/id"
      }
    ],
    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 384459,
  "published_at": "2021-05-24T11:15:08.387+00:00"
}