CVE-2021-25005
Published: 17 January 2022
Summary
CVE-2021-25005 is a medium-severity Cross-site Scripting (CWE-79) vulnerability in Seur Oficial Project Seur Oficial. Its CVSS base score is 4.8 (Medium).
Operationally, ranked at the 43.0th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog; a public proof-of-concept is referenced.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2021-11917
Vulnerability details
The SEUR Oficial WordPress plugin before 1.7.0 does not sanitize and escape some of its settings allowing high privilege users to perform Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed
- CWE(s)
Related Threats
No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.
Affected Assets
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.
Penetration testing submits XSS payloads to web applications, detecting cross-site scripting flaws for subsequent remediation.
Validates web inputs to reject script-related content that could produce XSS.
Output validation against expected content can reject or sanitize script content in generated web pages, reducing XSS exploitability.