4.8Medium
Cminds Video Lessons Manager
CVE-2021-24713
The Video Lessons Manager WordPress plugin before 1.7.2 and Video Lessons Manager Pro WordPress plugin before 3.5.9 do not properly sanitize and escape values when updating their settings, which could allow high privilege users to perform Cross-Site Scripting attacks
What this means for your business
- It affects Cminds Video Lessons Manager. It matters if your company, or a supplier that handles your data, runs it.
- Code showing how to exploit it has been published, but real attacks have not been confirmed.
- An attacker can use it remotely, over a network, with an administrator login, but only after tricking someone into an action such as opening a file or a link.
What to do
- 1Check whether your company or your suppliers run Cminds Video Lessons Manager, and which version. The affected versions are listed further down this page.
- 2If you do, follow the vendor's guidance. No patch reference has been published yet.
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Scoring
- CVSS
- 4.8 (v3.1)
- Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N- Weakness
- CWE-79
- Assigned by
- contact@wpscan.com
Dates
- Published
- 2021-11-23
- Last modified
- 2026-08-24
- Sources
- NVD
Affected products
- Cminds Video Lessons Manager- 1.7.2
As listed in the NVD configuration data. Not a statement about your estate.