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About Author Box

About Author Box is a WordPress plugin with the following stats:

  • #13,854 Global Rank
  • 10+ active installs
  • Since 2019 7 years active

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Bronze52.2
+25.0 · 30d
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+25.0 over the last 30 days

16.7
Popularity 40% 10+ active installs
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Reputation 35% No ratings yet
97.9
Freshness 25% Updated 20 days ago

No active penalty — 1 historical CVE, resolved — details

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Vulnerabilities

1 Total
1 Patched
0 Active
100% Resolved rate
CWE-79 · Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

The About Author Box WordPress plugin before 1.0.2 does not sanitise and escape the Social Profiles field values before outputting them in attributes, which could allow user with a role as low as contributor to perform Cross-Site Scripting attacks.

6.4 Medium Affected All – 1.0.2 Patched in ✓ 1.0.2 Published 26 Oct 2021 CVE CVE-2021-24745

Vulnerability data provided by Wordfence Intelligence (opens in a new tab). CVE data: Copyright 1999–2026 The MITRE Corporation. CVE Terms of Use (opens in a new tab).

About About Author Box

Display information about the post author automatically or using a shortcode.

Easily display an information box for the post author after or before post content.

Aside of the automatic display before post content and after post content you can also use a shortcode to display an author box. The shortcode is [about_author_box]

You can change the default settings for the shortcode in the “Shortcode” sections of the settings page. You can also pass parameters as part of the shortcode which overwrite those settings.

Accepted parameters are:

  • avatar ( 1 or 0, 1 to show 0 to hide )
  • avatar_size ( numeric value, default 120 )
  • avatar_style ( square/rounded/circle )
  • avatar_position ( left/right )
  • name ( 1 or 0, 1 to show 0 to hide ))
  • date ( 1 or 0, 1 to show 0 to hide )
  • bio ( 1 or 0, 1 to show 0 to hide )
  • social ( 1 or 0, 1 to show 0 to hide )
  • style_border ( none/horizontal/full )

Example usage:

[about_author_box avatar_size="90" bio="no" style_border="horizontal"]

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Changelog

1.0.4

  • Updated Tested up to to 7.0

1.0.3

  • Update Tested up to to 5.9

1.0.2

  • Escape/sanitize dynamic values

1.0.1

  • Escape/sanitize dynamic values for HTML attributes

1.0.0

  • Initial Release

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