CVE-2021-42546
Published: 13 December 2021
Summary
CVE-2021-42546 is a medium-severity Cross-site Scripting (CWE-79) vulnerability in Wpcloudplugins Use-Your-Drive. Its CVSS base score is 4.7 (Medium).
Operationally, ranked in the top 24.7% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2021-29515
Vulnerability details
Insufficient Input Validation in the search functionality of Wordpress plugin Use-Your-Drive prior to 1.18.3 allows unauthenticated user to craft a reflected Cross-Site Scripting attack.
- 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.