CVE-2021-24246: Purethemes Workscout

Medium severity, CVSS 5.4. EPSS: 0.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The Workscout Core WordPress plugin before 1.3.4, used by the WorkScout Theme did not sanitise the chat messages sent via the workscout_send_message_chat AJAX action, leading to Stored Cross-Site Scripting and Cross-Frame Scripting issues

Affected products

• Purethemes Workscout: before 2.0.33 (fixed in 2.0.33)
• Purethemes Workscout Core: before 1.3.4 (fixed in 1.3.4)

Published 2021-05-06. Last modified 2026-06-17.