CVE-2021-24443: Kainelabs Youzify

Medium severity, CVSS 5.4. EPSS: 0.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The About Me widget of the Youzify – BuddyPress Community, User Profile, Social Network & Membership WordPress plugin before 1.0.7 does not properly sanitise its Biography field, allowing any authenticated user to set Cross-Site Scripting payloads in it, which will be executed when viewing the affected user profile. This could allow a low privilege user to gain unauthorised access to the admin side of the blog by targeting an admin, inducing them to view their profile with a malicious payload adding a rogue account for example.

Affected products

• Kainelabs Youzify: before 1.0.7 (fixed in 1.0.7)

Published 2021-08-02. Last modified 2026-06-17.