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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2021-24979

The Paid Memberships Pro WordPress plugin before 2.6.6 does not escape the s parameter before outputting it back in an attribute in an admin page, leading to a Reflected Cross-Site Scripting

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CVE-2021-24979
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1 Nov 2026, 06:57 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

CVE-2021-24979

core-osv · Original source

Published 27 Dec 2021, 11:15 UTC

The Paid Memberships Pro WordPress plugin before 2.6.6 does not escape the s parameter before outputting it back in an attribute in an admin page, leading to a Reflected Cross-Site Scripting

osv:CVE-2021-24979
Complete source record
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  "method": "structured",
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        "https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/2632369/paid-memberships-pro/tags/2.6.6/adminpages/discountcodes.php",
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