CVE-2021-25071

CVE-2021-25071: Akismet Privacy Policies <= 2.0.1 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting

Vendor Unknown

Product Akismet Privacy Policies

Weakness CWE-79 · XSS

Published March 28, 2022

Last update August 3, 2024

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What the vulnerability does

01Description

The WordPress plugin through 2.0.1 does not sanitise and escape the translation parameter before outputting it back in an admin page, leading to a Reflected Cross-Site Scripting

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

March 28, 2022 CVE published

August 3, 2024 Record updated

External resources

03References

NVD — National Vulnerability Database https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-25071 CWE — Common Weakness Enumeration https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/79.html

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