PT-2021-22040 · WordPress · Twitter Friends Widget

P7E4 · Published 2021-09-09 · Updated 2021-09-22 · CVE-2021-38322

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: Twitter Friends Widget WordPress plugin versions up to and including 3.1

Description: The issue allows attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts via the pmc TF user and pmc TF password parameters found in the ~/twitter-friends-widget.php file. This is a Reflected Cross-Site Scripting issue.

Recommendations: For Twitter Friends Widget WordPress plugin versions up to and including 3.1, update to a version higher than 3.1 to resolve the issue. As a temporary workaround, consider restricting access to the ~/twitter-friends-widget.php file or disabling the use of the pmc TF user and pmc TF password parameters until a patch is available.

Exploit

Fix

XSS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-79

Related Identifiers

CVE-2021-38322

Affected Products

Twitter Friends Widget

References · 5

• 🔥 https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/twitter-friends-widget/trunk/twitter-friends-widget.php#L309 · Exploit
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2021-38322 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-38322 · Security Note
• https://t.me/cvenotify/21288 · Telegram Post
• https://wordfence.com/vulnerability-advisories/#CVE-2021-38322 · Note