FKIE_CVE-2021-24157

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2021-04-05 19:15 - Updated: 2026-06-17 03:39
Severity
5.4 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Summary
Orbit Fox by ThemeIsle has a feature to add custom scripts to the header and footer of a page or post. There were no checks to verify that a user had the unfiltered_html capability prior to saving the script tags, thus allowing lower-level users to inject scripts that could potentially be malicious.
References
contact@wpscan.comhttps://wpscan.com/vulnerability/28e42f4e-e38a-4bf4-b51b-d8f21c40f037Exploit, Third Party Advisory
contact@wpscan.comhttps://www.wordfence.com/blog/2021/01/multiple-vulnerabilities-patched-in-orbit-fox-by-themeisle-plugin/Exploit, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/28e42f4e-e38a-4bf4-b51b-d8f21c40f037Exploit, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.wordfence.com/blog/2021/01/multiple-vulnerabilities-patched-in-orbit-fox-by-themeisle-plugin/Exploit, Third Party Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
themeisle orbit_fox *
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  "affected": [
    {
      "affectedData": [
        {
          "product": "Orbit Fox by ThemeIsle",
          "vendor": "Unknown",
          "versions": [
            {
              "lessThan": "2.10.3",
              "status": "affected",
              "version": "2.10.3",
              "versionType": "custom"
            }
          ]
        }
      ],
      "source": "contact@wpscan.com"
    }
  ],
  "configurations": [
    {
      "nodes": [
        {
          "cpeMatch": [
            {
              "criteria": "cpe:2.3:a:themeisle:orbit_fox:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*",
              "matchCriteriaId": "BC4D1B04-8961-4277-93C1-7E2C16A4A0A5",
              "versionEndExcluding": "2.10.3",
              "vulnerable": true
            }
          ],
          "negate": false,
          "operator": "OR"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "cveTags": [],
  "descriptions": [
    {
      "lang": "en",
      "value": "Orbit Fox by ThemeIsle has a feature to add custom scripts to the header and footer of a page or post. There were no checks to verify that a user had the unfiltered_html capability prior to saving the script tags, thus allowing lower-level users to inject scripts that could potentially be malicious."
    },
    {
      "lang": "es",
      "value": "Orbit Fox de ThemeIsle, presenta una funcionalidad para a\u00f1adir scripts personalizados en el encabezado y el pie de p\u00e1gina de una p\u00e1gina o publicaci\u00f3n. No hab\u00eda comprobaciones para verificar que un usuario ten\u00eda la capacidad unfiltered_html antes de guardar las etiquetas de los scripts, lo que permit\u00eda a usuarios de nivel inferior inyectar scripts que pod\u00edan ser potencialmente maliciosos"
    }
  ],
  "id": "CVE-2021-24157",
  "lastModified": "2026-06-17T03:39:29.463",
  "metrics": {
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        "acInsufInfo": false,
        "baseSeverity": "LOW",
        "cvssData": {
          "accessComplexity": "MEDIUM",
          "accessVector": "NETWORK",
          "authentication": "SINGLE",
          "availabilityImpact": "NONE",
          "baseScore": 3.5,
          "confidentialityImpact": "NONE",
          "integrityImpact": "PARTIAL",
          "vectorString": "AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N",
          "version": "2.0"
        },
        "exploitabilityScore": 6.8,
        "impactScore": 2.9,
        "obtainAllPrivilege": false,
        "obtainOtherPrivilege": false,
        "obtainUserPrivilege": false,
        "source": "nvd@nist.gov",
        "type": "Primary",
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      }
    ],
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          "confidentialityImpact": "LOW",
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          "scope": "CHANGED",
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  "published": "2021-04-05T19:15:14.873",
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    },
    {
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    },
    {
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  "sourceIdentifier": "contact@wpscan.com",
  "vulnStatus": "Modified",
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        {
          "lang": "en",
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        }
      ],
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    }
  ]
}



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