CVE-2021-24821

Cost Calculator < 1.6 - Contributor+ Stored Cross-Site Scripting

MEDIUM
5.4
CVSS Score
Published: March 7, 2022 at 08:16 AM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 03:40 AM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorCost Calculator

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Severity
MEDIUM5.4
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.6%

Description

The Cost Calculator WordPress plugin before 1.6 allows users with a role as low as Contributor to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks via the Description fields of a Cost Calculator > Price Settings (which gets injected on the edit page as well as any page that embeds the calculator using the shortcode), as well as the Text Preview field of a Project (injected on the edit project page)

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

95%
v < 1.6
Affected range stops below 1.6, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement

Remediation

No guide yet

No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet, and no fixed version or vendor advisory is recorded against it.

References (1)

CVSS

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Complexity
LOW
Privileges
LOW
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
CHANGED
Confidentiality
LOW
Integrity
LOW
Availability
NONE
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-79

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