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2 vulnerabilities found for ark-commenteditor by Unknown
CVE-2021-4227 (GCVE-0-2021-4227)
Vulnerability from nvd – Published: 2024-01-16 15:52 – Updated: 2025-06-02 15:10
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
Ark Comment Editor <= 2.15.6 - Iframe Injection via Comment
Summary
The ark-commenteditor WordPress plugin through 2.15.6 does not properly sanitise or encode the comments when in Source editor, allowing attackers to inject an iFrame in the page and thus load arbitrary content from any page to the comment section
Severity
5.3 (Medium)
SSVC
Exploitation: poc
Automatable: yes
Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
Assigner
References
1 reference
| URL | Tags |
|---|---|
| https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/8d015eba-31dc-44… | exploitvdb-entrytechnical-description |
Impacted products
1 product
| Vendor | Product | Version | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unknown | ark-commenteditor |
Affected:
0 , ≤ 2.15.6
(semver)
|
Credits
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CVE-2021-4227 (GCVE-0-2021-4227)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-01-16 15:52 – Updated: 2025-06-02 15:10
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
Ark Comment Editor <= 2.15.6 - Iframe Injection via Comment
Summary
The ark-commenteditor WordPress plugin through 2.15.6 does not properly sanitise or encode the comments when in Source editor, allowing attackers to inject an iFrame in the page and thus load arbitrary content from any page to the comment section
Severity
5.3 (Medium)
SSVC
Exploitation: poc
Automatable: yes
Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
Assigner
References
1 reference
| URL | Tags |
|---|---|
| https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/8d015eba-31dc-44… | exploitvdb-entrytechnical-description |
Impacted products
1 product
| Vendor | Product | Version | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unknown | ark-commenteditor |
Affected:
0 , ≤ 2.15.6
(semver)
|
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