CVE-2021-38322 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

The Twitter Friends Widget WordPress plugin is vulnerable to Reflected Cross-Site Scripting via the pmc_TF_user and pmc_TF_password parameter found in the ~/twitter-friends-widget.php file which allows attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts, in versions up to and including 3.1.

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
Twitter Friends Widget Project	Twitter Friends Widget

Configuration 1 [-]

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Fixes

Solution

Uninstall plugin from WordPress site.

Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

References

Link	Providers
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/twitter-friends-widget/trunk/twitter-friends-widget.php#L309
https://www.wordfence.com/vulnerability-advisories/#CVE-2021-38322

History

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

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: Wordfence

Published: 2021-09-09T18:09:34.911Z

Updated: 2025-05-05T14:49:15.624Z

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

Link: CVE-2021-38322

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-04T01:37:16.355Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2021-09-09T19:15:13.867

Modified: 2024-11-21T06:16:47.880

Link: CVE-2021-38322

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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