CVE Vulnerability

CVE-2021-38316

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.

4.3 /10

CVSS v2.0 :

V3 Legend

Vector :

Exploitability : 8.6 / Impact : 2.9

Attack Vector

Attack Complexity

Privileges Required

User Interaction

Confidentiality Impact NONE

Integrity Impact PARTIAL

Availability Impact NONE

Scope

6.1 /10

CVSS v3.0 : MEDIUM

V3 Legend

Vector :

Exploitability : 2.8 / Impact : 2.7

Attack Vector NETWORK

Attack Complexity LOW

Privileges Required NONE

User Interaction REQUIRED

Confidentiality Impact LOW

Integrity Impact LOW

Availability Impact NONE

Scope CHANGED

References
Link Resource
https://www.wordfence.com/vulnerability-advisories/#CVE-2021-38316 Third Party Advisory
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-academic-people/tags/0.4.1/admin-panel.php#L57 Exploit Third Party Advisory
Configurations

Configuration 1

cpe:2.3:a:wp_academic_people_list_project:wp_academic_people_list:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*
Information

Published : 2021-09-09 07:15

Updated : 2021-09-22 05:23

NVD link : CVE-2021-38316

Mitre link : CVE-2021-38316

Products Affected
No products.
CWE
CWE-79