CVE-2021-24855: Display Post Metadata Project Display Post Metadata

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

The Display Post Metadata WordPress plugin before 1.5.0 adds a shortcode to print out custom fields, however their content is not sanitised or escaped which could allow users with a role as low as Contributor to perform Cross-Site Scripting attacks

Affected products

• Display Post Metadata Project Display Post Metadata: before 1.5.0 (fixed in 1.5.0)

Published 2021-12-13. Last modified 2026-06-17.