CVE-2021-34642 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

The Smart Email Alerts WordPress plugin is vulnerable to Reflected Cross-Site Scripting via the api_key in the ~/views/settings.php file which allows attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts, in versions up to and including 1.0.10.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

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 None

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact Partial

Availability Impact None

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.0021.

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

Vendors	Products
Followistic	Smart Email Alerts

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:followistic:smart_email_alerts:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*

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Fixes

Solution

Uninstall the plugin

Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

References

Link	Providers
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/smart-email-alerts/trunk/views/settings.php#L38
https://www.wordfence.com/vulnerability-advisories/#CVE-2021-34642

History

Mon, 05 May 2025 19:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
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MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: Wordfence

Published: 2021-08-16T18:22:23.199Z

Updated: 2025-05-05T18:49:34.310Z

Reserved: 2021-06-10T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2021-34642

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-04T00:19:47.778Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2021-08-16T19:15:14.393

Modified: 2024-11-21T06:10:52.537

Link: CVE-2021-34642

Redhat

No data.

OpenCVE Enrichment

No data.

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