CVE-2021-38325 - OpenCVE

The User Activation Email WordPress plugin is vulnerable to Reflected Cross-Site Scripting via the uae-key parameter found in the ~/user-activation-email.php file which allows attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts, in versions up to and including 1.3.0.

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

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

Vendors	Products
User-activation-email Project	User-activation-email

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:user-activation-email_project:user-activation-email:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*

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References

Link	Providers
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/user-activation-email/tags/1.3.0/user-activation-email.php#L191
https://www.wordfence.com/vulnerability-advisories/#CVE-2021-38325

History

No history.

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: Wordfence

Published: 2021-09-09T18:10:32.694930Z

Updated: 2024-09-16T19:34:57.456Z

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

Link: CVE-2021-38325

Vulnrichment

No data.

NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2021-09-09T19:15:14.150

Modified: 2021-09-22T19:41:29.757

Link: CVE-2021-38325

Redhat

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