CVE-2021-25117 (GCVE-0-2021-25117)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-01-16 15:49 – Updated: 2025-06-17 14:09
VLAI?
Title
WP Postratings < 1.86.1 - Admin+ Stored Cross-Site Scripting
Summary
The WP-PostRatings WordPress plugin before 1.86.1 does not sanitise the postratings_image parameter from its options page (wp-admin/admin.php?page=wp-postratings/postratings-options.php). Even though the page is only accessible to administrators, and protected against CSRF attacks, the issue is still exploitable when the unfiltered_html capability is disabled.
Severity ?
4.8 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CWE
Assigner
References
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/d2d9a789-edae-4a… exploitvdb-entrytechnical-description
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Unknown WP-PostRatings Affected: 0 , < 1.86.1 (semver)
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Credits
Park Won Seok WPScan
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