CVE-2021-24332: Autoptimize

Medium severity, CVSS 4.8. EPSS: 0.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The Autoptimize WordPress plugin before 2.8.4 was missing proper escaping and sanitisation in some of its settings, allowing high privilege users to set XSS payloads in them, leading to stored Cross-Site Scripting issues

Affected products

• Autoptimize Autoptimize: before 2.8.4 (fixed in 2.8.4)

Published 2021-05-24. Last modified 2026-06-17.