WorkScout - Job Board WordPress Theme <= 2.0.31 - Stored Cross-Site Scripting
Strategic Overview
- Status
- Patched in 2.0.32
- Affected Theme
- WorkScout - Job Board WordPress Theme
- Affected Version
<= 2.0.31- CVSS
- 6.4Medium
- Weakness type
- CWE-79 · Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
- CVE
CVE-2021-24246
At a glance
CVE-2021-24246 is a medium-severity Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') vulnerability in the WorkScout - Job Board WordPress Theme WordPress theme, affecting versions <= 2.0.31. It carries a CVSS score of 6.4 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity). The issue is fixed in version 2.0.32; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed April 2021, reported by R3N0.
Vulnerability Overview
The Workscout Core WordPress plugin before 1.3.4, used by the WorkScout Theme did not sanitise the chat messages sent via the workscout_send_message_chat AJAX action, leading to Stored Cross-Site Scripting and Cross-Frame Scripting issues
Technical Analysis
The vector marks this flaw as remotely reachable over the network, with low attack complexity — no special timing or configuration is needed, and no interaction from a victim user.
CWE-79: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
Reaching this weakness in WorkScout - Job Board WordPress Theme <= 2.0.31 takes a caller who can reach the endpoint. Cross-site scripting happens when input from a request is written into a page without being escaped for the context it lands in, so the browser parses attacker-supplied text as markup or script.
Injected script runs with the privileges of whoever views the affected page, which is how these flaws turn into administrator session theft, silent account creation or persistent backdoors in page content. For WorkScout - Job Board WordPress Theme the fix is 2.0.32: builds <= 2.0.31 are affected, anything from 2.0.32 onward is not.
Remediation
Update to version 2.0.32, or a newer patched version
How does WordSec protect against this?
The attempt arrives as an ordinary request to WorkScout - Job Board WordPress Theme: WordSec's web application firewall inspects request payloads before WordPress loads them. None of that substitutes for the fix: WorkScout - Job Board WordPress Theme 2.0.32 closes this, and updating the theme is the step that ends it.
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