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.
Advisories
Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2021-24769 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.
Fixes

Solution

Uninstall plugin from WordPress site.


Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

History

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

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Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: Wordfence

Published:

Updated: 2025-05-05T18:14:49.822Z

Reserved: 2021-08-09T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2021-38316

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-04T01:37:16.287Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2021-09-09T19:15:12.977

Modified: 2024-11-21T06:16:46.927

Link: CVE-2021-38316

cve-icon Redhat

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cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

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