CVE-2021-29271
Published: 27 March 2021
Summary
CVE-2021-29271 is a medium-severity Cross-site Scripting (CWE-79) vulnerability in Remark42 Remark42. Its CVSS base score is 6.1 (Medium).
Operationally, ranked at the 47.5th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2021-15909
Vulnerability details
remark42 before 1.6.1 allows XSS, as demonstrated by "Locator: Locator{URL:" followed by an XSS payload. This is related to backend/app/store/comment.go and backend/app/store/service/service.go.
- 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.