PT-2021-22033 · WordPress · Wp Academic People List

P7E4 · Published 2021-09-09 · Updated 2021-09-22 · CVE-2021-38316

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

6.1

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: WP Academic People List WordPress plugin versions up to and including 0.4.1

Description: The issue allows attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts via Reflected Cross-Site Scripting. This is achieved by exploiting the category name parameter in the ~/admin-panel.php file.

Recommendations: For versions up to and including 0.4.1, update to a version that contains a fix for this issue.

Exploit

Fix

XSS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-79

Related Identifiers

CVE-2021-38316

Affected Products

Wp Academic People List

References · 4

• 🔥 https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-academic-people/tags/0.4.1/admin-panel.php#L57 · Exploit
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-38316 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2021-38316 · Vendor Advisory
• https://wordfence.com/vulnerability-advisories/#CVE-2021-38316 · Note