MEDIUM SEVERITY

CVE-2021-3355

Lightcms vulnerability

CVSS
5.4
EPSS
7.2%
EPSS pct
94th
Exploited
No known
A stored-self XSS exists in LightCMS v1.3.4, allowing an attacker to execute HTML or JavaScript code in a vulnerable Title field to /admin/SensitiveWords.
Affected vendor
Lightcms Project
Affected product
Lightcms
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Weakness type (CWE)
  • CWE-79 — Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
Published
2021-02-24

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring low privileges, user interaction. Successful exploitation leads to low impact to confidentiality, low impact to integrity.

Its EPSS score of 7.2% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 94% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2021-3355

  • Confirm whether Lightcms Project Lightcms is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2021-3355.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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