CVE-2021-4227 (GCVE-0-2021-4227)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-01-16 15:52 – Updated: 2025-06-02 15:10
VLAI
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)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
SSVC
Exploitation: poc Automatable: yes Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
Assigner
References
URL Tags
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/8d015eba-31dc-44… exploitvdb-entrytechnical-description
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Unknown ark-commenteditor Affected: 0 , ≤ 2.15.6 (semver)
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Credits
Rasi Afeef WPScan
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