THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2021-24581
HIGH SEVERITY

CVE-2021-24581

Blue Admin vulnerability

CVSS
8.8
EPSS
4.1%
EPSS pct
90th
Exploited
No known
The Blue Admin WordPress plugin through 21.06.01 does not sanitise or escape its "Logo Title" setting before outputting in a page, leading to a Stored Cross-Site Scripting issue. Furthermore, the plugin does not have CSRF check in place when saving its settings, allowing the issue to be exploited via a CSRF attack.
Affected vendor
Blue Admin Project
Affected product
Blue Admin
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weakness type (CWE)
  • CWE-79 — Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
  • CWE-352 — Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
Published
2021-08-30

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 high impact to confidentiality, high impact to integrity, high impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 4.1% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 90% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2021-24581

  • Confirm whether Blue Admin Project Blue Admin is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2021-24581.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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