PT-2022-11572 · WordPress · Wp-Paginate

Park Won Seok · Published 2022-02-28 · Updated 2022-03-08 · CVE-2021-4222

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

4.8

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions WP-Paginate WordPress plugin versions prior to 2.1.4

Description The issue allows high privilege users, such as admins, to perform Cross-Site Scripting attacks. This is possible because the plugin does not properly sanitise and escape its preset settings, even when the unfiltered html capability is disallowed.

Recommendations For WP-Paginate WordPress plugin versions prior to 2.1.4, update to version 2.1.4 or later to resolve the issue.

Exploit

Fix

XSS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-79

Related Identifiers

CVE-2021-4222

Affected Products

Wp-Paginate

References · 5

• 🔥 https://packetstormsecurity.com/files/160800 · Exploit
• 🔥 https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/6df5f5b1-f10b-488e-80b3-2c024bbb8c78 · Exploit
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2021-4222 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-4222 · Security Note
• https://t.me/cvenotify/27453 · Telegram Post