CVE-2021-24611 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

The Keyword Meta WordPress plugin through 3.0 does not sanitise of escape its settings before outputting them back in the page after they are saved, allowing for Cross-Site Scripting issues. Furthermore, it is also lacking any CSRF check, allowing attacker to make a logged in high privilege user save arbitrary setting via a CSRF attack.

Published: 2021-09-06

Score: 5.4 Medium

EPSS: < 1% Very Low

KEV: No

Impact:

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Analysis

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

Unknown

Keyword Meta

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`3.0`	affected	≤ 3.0

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:keyword_meta_project:keyword_meta:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*

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Remediation

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2021-11523	The Keyword Meta WordPress plugin through 3.0 does not sanitise of escape its settings before outputting them back in the page after they are saved, allowing for Cross-Site Scripting issues. Furthermore, it is also lacking any CSRF check, allowing attacker to make a logged in high privilege user save arbitrary setting via a CSRF attack.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required Low

Scope Changed

Confidentiality Impact Low

Integrity Impact Low

Availability Impact None

User Interaction Required

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Medium

Authentication Single

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact Partial

Availability Impact None

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00085.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/b4a2e595-6971-4a2a-a346-ac4445a5e0cd

History

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Subscriptions

Keyword Meta Project Keyword Meta

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: WPScan

Published: 2021-09-06T11:09:34.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-03T19:35:20.209Z

Reserved: 2021-01-14T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2021-24611

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2021-09-06T11:15:08.703

Modified: 2024-11-21T05:53:24.473

Link: CVE-2021-24611

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

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