LiteSpeed Cache <= 4.4.3 - Authorization Bypass

6.5
Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
CVE CVE-2021-24964
CVSS 6.5 (Medium)
Publicly Published November 30, 2021
Last Updated January 10, 2023
Researcher Emil Kylander

Description

The LiteSpeed Cache WordPress plugin before 4.4.4 does not properly verify that requests are coming from QUIC.cloud servers, allowing attackers to make requests to certain endpoints by using a specific X-Forwarded-For header value. In addition, one of the endpoint could be used to set CSS code if a setting is enabled, which will then be output in some pages without being sanitised and escaped. Combining those two issues, an unauthenticated attacker could put Cross-Site Scripting payloads in pages visited by users.

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Vulnerability Details for LiteSpeed Cache

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug litespeed-cache (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Remediation Update to version 4.4.4, or a newer patched version
Affected Version
  • 1.0.15 - 4.4.3
Patched Version
  • 4.4.4

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