CVE-2021-38316

CVSS V2 Medium 4.3 CVSS V3 Medium 6.1
Description
The WP Academic People List WordPress plugin is vulnerable to Reflected Cross-Site Scripting via the category_name parameter in the ~/admin-panel.php file which allows attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts, in versions up to and including 0.4.1.
Overview
  • CVE ID
  • CVE-2021-38316
  • Assigner
  • security@wordfence.com
  • Vulnerability Status
  • Analyzed
  • Published Version
  • 2021-09-09T19:15:12
  • Last Modified Date
  • 2021-09-22T17:23:05
Weakness Enumerations
CWE URL
CWE-79 http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/79.html
CPE Configuration (Product)
CPE Vulnerable Operator Version Start Version End
cpe:2.3:a:wp_academic_people_list_project:wp_academic_people_list:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:* 1 OR 0.4.1
CVSS Version 2
  • Version
  • 2.0
  • Vector String
  • AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
  • Access Vector
  • NETWORK
  • Access Compatibility
  • MEDIUM
  • Authentication
  • NONE
  • Confidentiality Impact
  • NONE
  • Integrity Impact
  • PARTIAL
  • Availability Impact
  • NONE
  • Base Score
  • 4.3
  • Severity
  • MEDIUM
  • Exploitability Score
  • 8.6
  • Impact Score
  • 2.9
CVSS Version 3
  • Version
  • 3.1
  • Vector String
  • CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
  • Attack Vector
  • NETWORK
  • Attack Compatibility
  • LOW
  • Privileges Required
  • NONE
  • User Interaction
  • REQUIRED
  • Scope
  • CHANGED
  • Confidentiality Impact
  • LOW
  • Availability Impact
  • NONE
  • Base Score
  • 6.1
  • Base Severity
  • MEDIUM
  • Exploitability Score
  • 2.8
  • Impact Score
  • 2.7
References
Reference URL Reference Tags
https://www.wordfence.com/vulnerability-advisories/#CVE-2021-38316 Third Party Advisory
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-academic-people/tags/0.4.1/admin-panel.php#L57 Exploit Third Party Advisory
Sources
Source Name Source URL
NIST https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-38316
MITRE https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-38316
History
Created Old Value New Value Data Type Notes
2022-05-10 06:53:58 Added to TrackCVE
2022-12-05 10:17:45 2021-09-09T19:15Z 2021-09-09T19:15:12 CVE Published Date updated
2022-12-05 10:17:45 2021-09-22T17:23:05 CVE Modified Date updated
2022-12-05 10:17:45 Analyzed Vulnerability Status updated