CVE-2021-38316

WP Academic People List <= 0.4.1 Reflected Cross-Site Scripting

CVSS 6.1 MEDIUMEPSS 0.9%CWE-79

Vexday Risk Score

13Low

SSVC decision (CISA)

Track

No exploitation signal → monitor

CVSS 6.1EPSS 0.9%KEV nãoPoC —Nuclei —Metasploit —Patch —

Lifecycle

09 Sep 2021Published on NVD

Recommendation: Monitor — no exploitation signal at the moment.

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.

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Affected products

WP Academic People List · WP Academic People List

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References

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-academic-people/tags/0.4.1/admin-panel.php#L57 https://www.wordfence.com/vulnerability-advisories/#CVE-2021-38316