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WordPress Plugin: portfolio-wp: CVE-2021-25090: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

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Severity

CVSS

(AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N)

Published

Mar 15, 2022

Added

May 15, 2025

Modified

Apr 30, 2026

Description

The Portfolio Gallery, Product Catalog WordPress plugin before 2.1.0 does not have authorisation and CSRF checks in various functions related to AJAX actions, allowing any authenticated users, such as subscriber, to call them. Due to the lack of sanitisation and escaping, it could also allows attackers to perform Cross-Site Scripting attacks on pages where a Portfolio is embed

Solution

portfolio-wp-plugin-cve-2021-25090

References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-25090
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/1ebb6ebe-3a66-4ad8-9bba-c09354810159?source=api-prod
https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2021-12002
CVE-2021-25090
https://attackerkb.com/topics/CVE-2021-25090
CWE-79
EUVD-EUVD-2021-12002

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