Cyber Resilience

CVE-2021-23282

Medium

Published: 25 November 2024

Published
25 November 2024
Modified
15 April 2026
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score v3.1 5.2 CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0102 77.6th percentile
Risk Priority 11 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2021-23282 is a medium-severity Cross-site Scripting (CWE-79) vulnerability in Eaton Intelligent Power (inferred from references). Its CVSS base score is 5.2 (Medium).

Operationally, ranked in the top 22.4% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

Eaton Intelligent Power Manager (IPM) prior to 1.70 is vulnerable to stored Cross site scripting. The vulnerability exists due to insufficient validation of input from certain resources by the IPM software. The attacker would need access to the local Subnet…

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and an administrator interaction to compromise the system

CWE(s)

Related Threats

No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.

Affected Assets

Eaton
Intelligent Power
inferred from references and description; NVD did not file a CPE for this CVE

Mitigating Controls

Likely Mitigating Controls AI

Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.

addresses: CWE-79

Penetration testing submits XSS payloads to web applications, detecting cross-site scripting flaws for subsequent remediation.

addresses: CWE-79

Validates web inputs to reject script-related content that could produce XSS.

addresses: CWE-79

Output validation against expected content can reject or sanitize script content in generated web pages, reducing XSS exploitability.

References