CVE-2021-24613

MEDIUM 4.8CVE-2021-24613 · Published 20/09/2021 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2021-24613 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 4.8) vulnerability affecting post views counter (dfactory).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 0.62%, higher than 49.7% of all vulnerabilities.
Fix: update to 1.3.5 or later.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
post views counter dfactory	`< 1.3.5`	`1.3.5`

Description

The Post Views Counter WordPress plugin before 1.3.5 does not sanitise or escape its Post Views Label settings, which could allow high privilege users to perform Cross-Site Scripting attacks in the frontend even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed

References

wpscan.com/vulnerability/0b8c5947-bc73-448e-8f10-a4f4456e4000 · Exploit

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