Vulnerability CVE-2021-42365
Published: 2021-11-29

Description:
The Asgaros Forums WordPress plugin is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting due to insufficient escaping via the name parameter found in the ~/admin/tables/admin-structure-table.php file which allowed attackers with administrative user access to inject arbitrary web scripts, in versions up to and including 1.15.13. This affects multi-site installations where unfiltered_html is disabled for administrators, and sites where unfiltered_html is disabled.

Type:

CWE-79

 (Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting'))

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:H/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
2.1/10
2.9/10
3.9/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
High
Single time
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
Partial
None
Affected software
Asgaros -> Asgaros forum 

 References:
https://wordfence.com/vulnerability-advisories/#CVE-2021-42365
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/2635143/asgaros-forum/trunk/admin/tables/admin-structure-table.php
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