CVE-2021-24305 (GCVE-0-2021-24305)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-05-24 10:58 – Updated: 2024-08-03 19:28
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
Target First Plugin 2.0 - Unauthenticated Stored XSS via Licence Key
Summary
The Target First WordPress Plugin v2.0, also previously known as Watcheezy, suffers from a critical unauthenticated stored XSS vulnerability. An attacker could change the licence key value through a POST on any URL with the 'weeWzKey' parameter that will be save as the 'weeID option and is not sanitized.
Severity
6.1 (Medium)
CWE
- CWE-79 - Cross-site Scripting (XSS)
Assigner
References
2 references
| URL | Tags |
|---|---|
| https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/4d55d1f5-a7b8-40… | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
| https://www.targetfirst.com/ | x_refsource_MISC |
Impacted products
1 product
| Vendor | Product | Version | CPE status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| TargetFirst | Target First Plugin |
Affected:
2.0
|
guessed |
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