CVE-2021-24910

MEDIUMNuclei

Transposh WordPress Translation < 1.0.8 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting

Title source: CVE List
STIX 2.1 vulnerability

Record summary

CVE-2021-24910 has a selected CVSS score of 6.1 (medium); EIP currently links 1 Nuclei template.

Description

The Transposh WordPress Translation WordPress plugin before 1.0.8 does not sanitise and escape the a parameter via an AJAX action (available to both unauthenticated and authenticated users when the curl library is installed) before outputting it back in the response, leading to a Reflected Cross-Site Scripting issue

Description source: CVE List

Exploitation context

Available material

Nuclei templates
1

Affected products and versions

1
ProductSourceVersion range

Transposh WordPress Translation

CVE List1.0.8 to < 1.0.8affected

Nuclei templates

1
ProjectDiscoveryMEDIUMWordPress Transposh Translation <1.0.8 - Cross-Site ScriptingCVSS 6.1

WordPress Transposh Translation plugin before 1.0.8 contains a reflected cross-site scripting vulnerability. It does not sanitize and escape the a parameter via an AJAX action (available to both unauthenticated and authenticated users when the curl library is installed) before outputting it back in the response.

Impact

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an attacker to inject malicious scripts into the affected website, leading to potential data theft, session hijacking, or defacement.

Remediation

Update the WordPress Transposh Translation plugin to version 1.0.8 or later to mitigate the vulnerability.

WeaknessesCWE-79
AuthorsScreamy
Template tagscve2021cvewordpresswp-pluginxsswpwpscantransposhvuln
CVSS vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CPE: cpe:2.3:a:transposh:transposh_wordpress_translation:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*
https://www.rcesecurity.com/2022/07/WordPress-Transposh-Exploiting-a-Blind-SQL-Injection-via-XSS/ https://github.com/MrTuxracer/advisories/blob/master/CVEs/CVE-2021-24910.txt https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/b5cbebf4-5749-41a0-8be3-3333853fca17 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-24910 https://github.com/ARPSyndicate/cvemon

Source: ProjectDiscovery

References

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