PT-2021-22068 · WordPress · Advance Search Wordpress Plugin

P7E4 · Published 2021-09-10 · Updated 2021-09-21 · CVE-2021-38348

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 Advance Search WordPress plugin versions up to and including 1.1.2

Description The issue allows attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts via the wpas id parameter in the ~/inc/admin/views/html-advance-search-admin-options.php file, enabling Reflected Cross-Site Scripting attacks.

Recommendations For versions up to and including 1.1.2, update to a version later than 1.1.2 to resolve the issue. As a temporary workaround, consider restricting access to the wpas id parameter in the affected file until a patch is available.

Exploit

Fix

XSS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-79

Related Identifiers

CVE-2021-38348

Affected Products

Advance Search Wordpress Plugin

References · 5

• 🔥 https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/advance-search/trunk/inc/admin/views/html-advance-search-admin-options.php#L88 · Exploit
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2021-38348 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-38348 · Security Note
• https://wordfence.com/vulnerability-advisories/#CVE-2021-38348 · Note
• https://t.me/cvenotify/21217 · Telegram Post