What is CVE-2021-4222?

CVE-2021-4222 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Maxfoundry Wp-paginate, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 4.8/10. Published 2022-02-28.

How severe is CVE-2021-4222?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.8 out of 10.

Is CVE-2021-4222 known to be exploited?

1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

XSS in Maxfoundry Wp-paginate

CVE-2021-4222

The WP-Paginate WordPress plugin before 2.1.4 does not sanitise and escape its preset settings, allowing high privilege users such as admin to perform Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html is disallowed

Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)

EPSS: 0.008 (53.1th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 4.8 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N.

Affected products

Maxfoundry Wp-paginate
Unknown Wp-paginate — versions 2.1.4

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting

Public proof-of-concept exploits

20142995/nuclei-templates

References

contact@wpscan.com (Exploit, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)
contact@wpscan.com (Exploit, VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2021-4222?: CVE-2021-4222 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Maxfoundry Wp-paginate, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 4.8/10. Published 2022-02-28.
How severe is CVE-2021-4222?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.8 out of 10.
Is CVE-2021-4222 known to be exploited?: 1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.