THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2021-24210
MEDIUM SEVERITY

CVE-2021-24210

Phastpress vulnerability

CVSS
6.1
EPSS
3.1%
EPSS pct
86th
Exploited
No known
There is an open redirect in the PhastPress WordPress plugin before 1.111 that allows an attacker to malform a request to a page with the plugin and then redirect the victim to a malicious page. There is also a support comment from another user one year ago (https://wordpress.org/support/topic/phast-php-used-for-remote-fetch/) that says that the php involved in the request only go to whitelisted pages but it's possible to redirect the victim to any domain.
Affected vendor
Kiboit
Affected product
Phastpress
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Weakness type (CWE)
Published
2021-04-05

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring no privileges, user interaction. Successful exploitation leads to low impact to confidentiality, low impact to integrity.

Its EPSS score of 3.1% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 86% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2021-24210

  • Confirm whether Kiboit Phastpress is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2021-24210.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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