CVE-2021-24745: Wpkube About Author Box

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

The About Author Box WordPress plugin before 1.0.2 does not sanitise and escape the Social Profiles field values before outputting them in attributes, which could allow user with a role as low as contributor to perform Cross-Site Scripting attacks.

Affected products

• Wpkube About Author Box: before 1.0.2 (fixed in 1.0.2)

Published 2021-11-29. Last modified 2026-06-17.