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Vulnerability record · CVE-2021-24517 · published 6 September 2021

CVE-2021-24517: Trumani stop spammers cross-site scripting vulnerability

Trumani · Stop Spammers

The Stop Spammers Security | Block Spam Users, Comments, Forms WordPress plugin before 2021.18 does not escape some of its settings, allowing high privilege users such as admin to set Cross-Site Scripting payloads in them even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed

5.4 CVSS 3.1 Medium EPSS 0.62% · top 52.2% CWE-79 · Cross-site scripting
5.4CVSS 3.1 base score, v2 3.5
0.62%EPSS exploitation probability, 30 days
NoNot in CISA KEV
1Affected product versions listed by NVD
2References, 2 tagged exploit
17 Jun 2026Last modified by NVD

Description

The Stop Spammers Security | Block Spam Users, Comments, Forms WordPress plugin before 2021.18 does not escape some of its settings, allowing high privilege users such as admin to set Cross-Site Scripting payloads in them even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Affected products

1 vulnerable configurations from NVD's CPE data, grouped by vendor and product.

References

LinkTags
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/f440edd8-94fe-440a-8a5b-e3d24dcfcbc1 ExploitThird Party Advisory
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/f440edd8-94fe-440a-8a5b-e3d24dcfcbc1 ExploitThird Party Advisory

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Source: NIST National Vulnerability Database (record CVE-2021-24517), CISA KEV, FIRST EPSS (scores of 2026-09-26). This page is refreshed as NVD updates the record.