CVE-2021-24178 (GCVE-0-2021-24178)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-05-05 18:39 – Updated: 2024-08-03 19:21
VLAI
Title
Business Directory Plugin < 5.11.1 - Arbitrary Add/Edit/Delete Form Field to Stored XSS
Summary
The Business Directory Plugin – Easy Listing Directories for WordPress WordPress plugin before 5.11.1 suffered from Cross-Site Request Forgery issues, allowing an attacker to make a logged in administrator add, edit or delete form fields, which could also lead to Stored Cross-Site Scripting issues.
Severity
8.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-352 - Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Credits
0xB9
Show details on NVD website
To clipboard 

{
  "containers": {
    "adp": [
      {
        "providerMetadata": {
          "dateUpdated": "2024-08-03T19:21:18.713Z",
          "orgId": "af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108",
          "shortName": "CVE"
        },
        "references": [
          {
            "tags": [
              "x_refsource_CONFIRM",
              "x_transferred"
            ],
            "url": "https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/700f3b04-8298-447c-8d3c-4581880a63b5"
          }
        ],
        "title": "CVE Program Container"
      }
    ],
    "cna": {
      "affected": [
        {
          "product": "Business Directory Plugin \u2013 Easy Listing Directories for WordPress",
          "vendor": "Business Directory Team",
          "versions": [
            {
              "lessThan": "5.11.1",
              "status": "affected",
              "version": "5.11.1",
              "versionType": "custom"
            }
          ]
        }
      ],
      "credits": [
        {
          "lang": "en",
          "value": "0xB9"
        }
      ],
      "descriptions": [
        {
          "lang": "en",
          "value": "The Business Directory Plugin \u2013 Easy Listing Directories for WordPress WordPress plugin before 5.11.1 suffered from Cross-Site Request Forgery issues, allowing an attacker to make a logged in administrator add, edit or delete form fields, which could also lead to Stored Cross-Site Scripting issues."
        }
      ],
      "problemTypes": [
        {
          "descriptions": [
            {
              "cweId": "CWE-352",
              "description": "CWE-352 Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)",
              "lang": "en",
              "type": "CWE"
            }
          ]
        }
      ],
      "providerMetadata": {
        "dateUpdated": "2021-05-05T18:39:42.000Z",
        "orgId": "1bfdd5d7-9bf6-4a53-96ea-42e2716d7a81",
        "shortName": "WPScan"
      },
      "references": [
        {
          "tags": [
            "x_refsource_CONFIRM"
          ],
          "url": "https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/700f3b04-8298-447c-8d3c-4581880a63b5"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "discovery": "UNKNOWN"
      },
      "title": "Business Directory Plugin \u003c 5.11.1 - Arbitrary Add/Edit/Delete Form Field to Stored XSS",
      "x_generator": "WPScan CVE Generator",
      "x_legacyV4Record": {
        "CVE_data_meta": {
          "ASSIGNER": "contact@wpscan.com",
          "ID": "CVE-2021-24178",
          "STATE": "PUBLIC",
          "TITLE": "Business Directory Plugin \u003c 5.11.1 - Arbitrary Add/Edit/Delete Form Field to Stored XSS"
        },
        "affects": {
          "vendor": {
            "vendor_data": [
              {
                "product": {
                  "product_data": [
                    {
                      "product_name": "Business Directory Plugin \u2013 Easy Listing Directories for WordPress",
                      "version": {
                        "version_data": [
                          {
                            "version_affected": "\u003c",
                            "version_name": "5.11.1",
                            "version_value": "5.11.1"
                          }
                        ]
                      }
                    }
                  ]
                },
                "vendor_name": "Business Directory Team"
              }
            ]
          }
        },
        "credit": [
          {
            "lang": "eng",
            "value": "0xB9"
          }
        ],
        "data_format": "MITRE",
        "data_type": "CVE",
        "data_version": "4.0",
        "description": {
          "description_data": [
            {
              "lang": "eng",
              "value": "The Business Directory Plugin \u2013 Easy Listing Directories for WordPress WordPress plugin before 5.11.1 suffered from Cross-Site Request Forgery issues, allowing an attacker to make a logged in administrator add, edit or delete form fields, which could also lead to Stored Cross-Site Scripting issues."
            }
          ]
        },
        "generator": "WPScan CVE Generator",
        "problemtype": {
          "problemtype_data": [
            {
              "description": [
                {
                  "lang": "eng",
                  "value": "CWE-352 Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)"
                }
              ]
            }
          ]
        },
        "references": {
          "reference_data": [
            {
              "name": "https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/700f3b04-8298-447c-8d3c-4581880a63b5",
              "refsource": "CONFIRM",
              "url": "https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/700f3b04-8298-447c-8d3c-4581880a63b5"
            }
          ]
        },
        "source": {
          "discovery": "UNKNOWN"
        }
      }
    }
  },
  "cveMetadata": {
    "assignerOrgId": "1bfdd5d7-9bf6-4a53-96ea-42e2716d7a81",
    "assignerShortName": "WPScan",
    "cveId": "CVE-2021-24178",
    "datePublished": "2021-05-05T18:39:42.000Z",
    "dateReserved": "2021-01-14T00:00:00.000Z",
    "dateUpdated": "2024-08-03T19:21:18.713Z",
    "state": "PUBLISHED"
  },
  "dataType": "CVE_RECORD",
  "dataVersion": "5.1",
  "vulnerability-lookup:meta": {
    "epss": {
      "cve": "CVE-2021-24178",
      "date": "2026-09-21",
      "epss": "0.00672",
      "percentile": "0.50227"
    },
    "nvd": {
      "cve": {
        "configurations": [
          {
            "nodes": [
              {
                "cpeMatch": [
                  {
                    "criteria": "cpe:2.3:a:strategy11:business_directory_plugin_-_easy_listing_directories:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*",
                    "matchCriteriaId": "D612DCCB-A478-4E37-8A9B-FE81D0603805",
                    "versionEndExcluding": "5.11.1",
                    "vulnerable": true
                  }
                ],
                "negate": false,
                "operator": "OR"
              }
            ]
          }
        ],
        "cveTags": [],
        "descriptions": [
          {
            "lang": "en",
            "value": "The Business Directory Plugin \u2013 Easy Listing Directories for WordPress WordPress plugin before 5.11.1 suffered from Cross-Site Request Forgery issues, allowing an attacker to make a logged in administrator add, edit or delete form fields, which could also lead to Stored Cross-Site Scripting issues."
          },
          {
            "lang": "es",
            "value": "El plugin Business Directory Plugin Easy Listing Directories para WordPress versiones anteriores a 5.11.1, sufr\u00eda problemas de tipo Cross-Site Request Forgery, permitiendo a un atacante hacer que un administrador que haya iniciado sesi\u00f3n agregue, edite o elimine campos de formulario, lo que tambi\u00e9n podr\u00eda conllevar a problemas de tipo Cross-Site Scripting Almacenado"
          }
        ],
        "id": "CVE-2021-24178",
        "lastModified": "2024-11-21T05:52:32.107",
        "metrics": {
          "cvssMetricV2": [
            {
              "acInsufInfo": false,
              "baseSeverity": "MEDIUM",
              "cvssData": {
                "accessComplexity": "MEDIUM",
                "accessVector": "NETWORK",
                "authentication": "NONE",
                "availabilityImpact": "PARTIAL",
                "baseScore": 6.8,
                "confidentialityImpact": "PARTIAL",
                "integrityImpact": "PARTIAL",
                "vectorString": "AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P",
                "version": "2.0"
              },
              "exploitabilityScore": 8.6,
              "impactScore": 6.4,
              "obtainAllPrivilege": false,
              "obtainOtherPrivilege": false,
              "obtainUserPrivilege": false,
              "source": "nvd@nist.gov",
              "type": "Primary",
              "userInteractionRequired": true
            }
          ],
          "cvssMetricV31": [
            {
              "cvssData": {
                "attackComplexity": "LOW",
                "attackVector": "NETWORK",
                "availabilityImpact": "HIGH",
                "baseScore": 8.8,
                "baseSeverity": "HIGH",
                "confidentialityImpact": "HIGH",
                "integrityImpact": "HIGH",
                "privilegesRequired": "NONE",
                "scope": "UNCHANGED",
                "userInteraction": "REQUIRED",
                "vectorString": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H",
                "version": "3.1"
              },
              "exploitabilityScore": 2.8,
              "impactScore": 5.9,
              "source": "nvd@nist.gov",
              "type": "Primary"
            }
          ]
        },
        "published": "2021-05-06T13:15:11.333",
        "references": [
          {
            "source": "contact@wpscan.com",
            "tags": [
              "Exploit",
              "Third Party Advisory"
            ],
            "url": "https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/700f3b04-8298-447c-8d3c-4581880a63b5"
          },
          {
            "source": "af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108",
            "tags": [
              "Exploit",
              "Third Party Advisory"
            ],
            "url": "https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/700f3b04-8298-447c-8d3c-4581880a63b5"
          }
        ],
        "sourceIdentifier": "contact@wpscan.com",
        "vulnStatus": "Modified",
        "weaknesses": [
          {
            "description": [
              {
                "lang": "en",
                "value": "CWE-352"
              }
            ],
            "source": "contact@wpscan.com",
            "type": "Secondary"
          }
        ]
      }
    },
    "redhat_vex": {
      "current_release_date": "2026-03-27T14:43:17+00:00",
      "cve": "CVE-2021-24178",
      "id": "CVE-2021-24178",
      "initial_release_date": "2021-01-01T00:00:00+00:00",
      "product_status:known_not_affected": "1",
      "source": "Red Hat CSAF VEX",
      "status": "final",
      "title": "Business Directory Plugin \u003c 5.11.1 - Arbitrary Add/Edit/Delete Form Field to Stored XSS",
      "url": "https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2021/cve-2021-24178.json",
      "version": "3"
    }
  }
}



Log in or create an account to share your comment.




Tags
Taxonomy of the tags.





Forecast uses a logistic model when the trend is rising, or an exponential decay model when the trend is falling. Fitted via linearized least squares.

Sightings

Author Source Type Date Other

Nomenclature

  • Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
  • Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
  • Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
  • Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
  • Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
  • Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
  • Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
  • Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.


Detection rules are retrieved from Rulezet.


Related by attack behaviour

Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.