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.

Related CPE's

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wp_academic_people_list_project

wp_academic_people_list

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wordpress

Vulnerable

References

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-academic-people/tags/0.4.1/admin-panel.php#L57

ExploitThird Party Advisory

https://www.wordfence.com/vulnerability-advisories/#CVE-2021-38316

Third Party Advisory

Weaknesses

[email protected]

Primary
CWE-79

[email protected]

Secondary
CWE-79

CVSS impact metrics

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

6.1 · Medium

  • CVSS V3.1

  • CVSS V3.0

  • CVSS V2.0

Information

Source identifier

[email protected]

Vulnerability status

Analyzed

Published

2021-09-09T19:15:12.977

3 years ago

Last modified

2021-09-22T17:23:05.423

3 years ago