CVE-2021-24611

CVSS V2 Low 3.5 CVSS V3 Medium 5.4
Description
The Keyword Meta WordPress plugin through 3.0 does not sanitise of escape its settings before outputting them back in the page after they are saved, allowing for Cross-Site Scripting issues. Furthermore, it is also lacking any CSRF check, allowing attacker to make a logged in high privilege user save arbitrary setting via a CSRF attack.
Overview
  • CVE ID
  • CVE-2021-24611
  • Assigner
  • contact@wpscan.com
  • Vulnerability Status
  • Analyzed
  • Published Version
  • 2021-09-06T11:15:08
  • Last Modified Date
  • 2021-09-13T11:58:05
Weakness Enumerations
CWE URL
CWE-352 http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/352.html
CPE Configuration (Product)
CPE Vulnerable Operator Version Start Version End
cpe:2.3:a:keyword_meta_project:keyword_meta:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:* 1 OR 3.0
CVSS Version 2
  • Version
  • 2.0
  • Vector String
  • AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N
  • Access Vector
  • NETWORK
  • Access Compatibility
  • MEDIUM
  • Authentication
  • SINGLE
  • Confidentiality Impact
  • NONE
  • Integrity Impact
  • PARTIAL
  • Availability Impact
  • NONE
  • Base Score
  • 3.5
  • Severity
  • LOW
  • Exploitability Score
  • 6.8
  • Impact Score
  • 2.9
CVSS Version 3
  • Version
  • 3.1
  • Vector String
  • CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
  • Attack Vector
  • NETWORK
  • Attack Compatibility
  • LOW
  • Privileges Required
  • LOW
  • User Interaction
  • REQUIRED
  • Scope
  • CHANGED
  • Confidentiality Impact
  • LOW
  • Availability Impact
  • NONE
  • Base Score
  • 5.4
  • Base Severity
  • MEDIUM
  • Exploitability Score
  • 2.3
  • Impact Score
  • 2.7
References
Reference URL Reference Tags
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/b4a2e595-6971-4a2a-a346-ac4445a5e0cd Exploit Third Party Advisory
Sources
Source Name Source URL
NIST https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-24611
MITRE https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-24611
History
Created Old Value New Value Data Type Notes
2022-05-10 16:05:58 Added to TrackCVE
2022-12-05 09:39:11 2021-09-06T11:15Z 2021-09-06T11:15:08 CVE Published Date updated
2022-12-05 09:39:11 2021-09-13T11:58:05 CVE Modified Date updated
2022-12-05 09:39:11 Analyzed Vulnerability Status updated