About Author Box
About Author Box has one disclosed vulnerability in the WordSec catalog, all reported in 2021; it is fixed as of September 2026. Their average CVSS score is 6.4, and the most serious one scores 6.4 out of 10.
The most common weakness is Cross-Site Scripting, behind 1 of the records (100%).
The one issue recorded for About Author Box has a vendor fix available, so running the current release closes it.
All of these findings were reported by Francesco Carlucci. About Author Box is installed on roughly 10 WordPress sites, so each unpatched flaw has a wide blast radius. The current release is tested up to WordPress 7.0.4.
CVE-2021-24745About Author Box < 1.0.2 - Cross-Site Scripting
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About Author Box
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Easily display an information box for the post author after or before post content. Aside of the automatic display before post content and after post content you can also use a shortcode to display an author box. The shortcode is [about_author_box] You can change the default settings for the shortcode in the “Shortcode” sections of the settings page. You can also pass parameters as part of the shortcode which overwrite those settings. Accepted parameters are: avatar ( 1 or 0, 1 to show 0 to hide ) avatar_size ( numeric value, default 120 ) avatar_style ( square/rounded/circle ) avatar_position ( left/right ) name ( 1 or 0, 1 to show 0 to hide )) date ( 1 or 0, 1 to show 0 to hide ) bio ( 1 or 0, 1 to show 0 to hide ) social ( 1 or 0, 1 to show 0 to hide ) style_border ( none/horizontal/full ) Example usage: [about_author_box avatar_size="90" bio="no" style_border="horizontal"]
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