CVE-2021-24870 (GCVE-0-2021-24870)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-01-16 15:49 – Updated: 2025-05-12 14:43
VLAI?
Title
WP Fastest Cache < 0.9.5 - CSRF to Stored Cross-Site Scripting
Summary
The WP Fastest Cache WordPress plugin before 0.9.5 is lacking a CSRF check in its wpfc_save_cdn_integration AJAX action, and does not sanitise and escape some the options available via the action, which could allow attackers to make logged in high privilege users call it and set a Cross-Site Scripting payload
Severity ?
6.1 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CWE
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Unknown WP Fastest Cache Affected: 0 , < 0.9.5 (semver)
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Credits
Marc Montpas WPScan
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