CVE-2021-38347 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

The Custom Website Data WordPress plugin is vulnerable to Reflected Cross-Site Scripting via the id parameter found in the ~/views/edit.php file which allows attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts, in versions up to and including 2.2.

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
Custom Website Data Project	Custom Website Data

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/simple-custom-website-data/tags/2.2/views/edit.php#L30
https://www.wordfence.com/vulnerability-advisories/#CVE-2021-38347

History

Fri, 02 May 2025 20:15:00 +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: 2021-09-10T13:34:24.436Z

Updated: 2025-05-02T19:46:21.170Z

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

Link: CVE-2021-38347

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-04T01:37:16.516Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2021-09-10T14:15:10.390

Modified: 2024-11-21T06:16:52.000

Link: CVE-2021-38347

Redhat

No data.

OpenCVE Enrichment

No data.

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