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Comments — wpDiscuz <= 7.3.0 - Authenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting

CVE-2021-24737Published · Updated

Action summary

Affected: ≤7.3.0Update to 7.3.2 or newer

All remediation steps
Severity
Medium4.8
CVSS
4.8
CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
What does this vector mean?
AV:N Attack vector
Network
AC:L Attack complexity
Low
PR:H Privileges required
High
UI:R User interaction
Required
S:C Scope
Changed
C:L Confidentiality
Low
I:L Integrity
Low
A:N Availability
None
Weakness
CWE-79 Cross-Site Scripting
Required access
Unknown
Exploit prediction (EPSS)
No score
CISA KEV
Not listed

Am I affected?

Comments – wpDiscuz wpdiscuz

  1. Affected≤ 7.3.0
  2. Patched in7.3.2

Update to 7.3.2 or newer.

You are affected if you run ≤ 7.3.0. Version 7.3.2 and later are not affected by this issue.

  • Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under Comments – wpDiscuz.
  • No admin access? Run a passive check of your site. It reads public files only.

What to do

  1. Update to version 7.3.2, or a newer patched version
  2. Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
  3. Watch Comments – wpDiscuz to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.

Advisory

Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to Phu Tran.

The Comments - wpDiscuz WordPress plugin through 7.3.0 does not properly sanitize or escape the Follow and Unfollow messages before outputting them in the page, which could allow high privilege users to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed.

Exploits & references

Proof-of-concept & detection

No public proof-of-concept or detection template is known for this vulnerability.

Advisories & patches

More in Comments – wpDiscuz

All 28
More vulnerabilities in Comments – wpDiscuz
SeverityVulnerabilityCVEPublished
High7.2Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting
≤7.6.73Update to 7.6.74
CVE-2026-119366
High7.5Unauthenticated SQL Injection
<7.6.66Update to 7.6.66
CVE-2026-19704
High7.2Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'Website' Field
≤7.6.56Update to 7.6.57
CVE-2026-9148
Medium4.4Authenticated (Admin+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting
≤7.6.46Update to 7.6.47
CVE-2026-22209
Medium5.3Unauthenticated Insecure Direct Object Reference
≤7.6.42Update to 7.6.44
CVE-2025-68997

Same weakness (Cross-Site Scripting)

All Cross-Site Scripting
Other Cross-Site Scripting vulnerabilities
SeverityVulnerabilityCVEPublished
High7.2Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Comment User-Agent HeaderCVE-2026-120688
Critical9.8Unauthenticated Arbitrary File Upload via File Upload via Public Form SubmissionCVE-2026-125055
Critical9.8Unauthenticated PHP Object Injection to Remote Code Execution via 'form' ParameterCVE-2026-119077
Medium5.3Unauthenticated Sensitive Information Exposure in 'search' Parameter
Customer Reviews for WooCommerce≤5.127.0Update to 5.128.0
CVE-2026-121518

Timeline

  1. CVE published

    Severity medium, CVSS 4.8

  2. Record last updated

Sources & licenses

Wordfence record
Vulnerability data
Wordfence Intelligence. Copyright 2012-2026 Defiant Inc. Licensed under the CC BY-SA 4.0.
CVE® identifiers
Copyright 1999-2026 The MITRE Corporation. Used under the CVE Program. CVE® is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation.
CVSS / CWE
National Vulnerability Database (NVD), shown unmodified. This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.
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