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CVE-2021-24243

CVE-2021-24243 — WPBakery Page Builder Clipboard < 4.5.6 - Subscriber+ Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)

An AJAX action registered by the WPBakery Page Builder (Visual Composer) Clipboard WordPress plugin before 4.5.6 did not have capability checks nor sanitization, allowing low privilege users (subscriber+) to call it and set XSS payloads, which will be triggered in all backend pages.

Published Updated Sources: cvelistV5, WPScan

Triage

Is it exploited, how likely is exploitation, what does it touch, and how severe do the scoring sources call it.

Exploitation

Unreported

no source claims exploitation

EPSS

1%

chance of exploitation in 30 days

Affects

bitorbit

wpbakery_page_builder_visual_composer_clipboard

CVSS base

Unscored

no source published a base score

Affected scope

The catalog records vendors and products as separate lists, not pairs, so which product belongs to which vendor is not something this page can say.

Vendors (1)

bitorbit

Products (1)

wpbakery page builder visual composer clipboard

Weakness & attack patterns

  • CWE-79

References

2 on the record

Elsewhere on this site

  • bitorbitevery CVE for this vendor
  • CWE-79other pages naming this weakness

Not in any source we poll

Listed rather than left blank: an empty field and an unmeasured one look identical on screen, and only one is a reason to look elsewhere.

  • No confirmed IOCs, IP addresses, domains, file hashes, or malware artifacts supplied.
  • No organization-specific asset inventory, compensating-control status, or patch deployment evidence supplied.
  • No exploit packet captures, log samples, or incident case IDs supplied.