CVE-2021-25090
Published: 11 April 2022
Summary
CVE-2021-25090 is a medium-severity Cross-site Scripting (CWE-79) vulnerability in Wpsofts Portfolio Gallery\, Product Catalog - Grid Kit Portfolio. Its CVSS base score is 5.4 (Medium).
Operationally, ranked at the 43.3th 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-2021-12002
Vulnerability details
The Portfolio Gallery, Product Catalog WordPress plugin before 2.1.0 does not have authorisation and CSRF checks in various functions related to AJAX actions, allowing any authenticated users, such as subscriber, to call them. Due to the lack of sanitisation and…
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escaping, it could also allows attackers to perform Cross-Site Scripting attacks on pages where a Portfolio is embed
- 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.