Akismet Privacy Policies <= 2.0.1 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting

Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

CVE	CVE-2021-25071
CVSS	Medium (6.1)
Publicly Published	March 7, 2022
Last Updated	January 22, 2024
Researcher	Krzysztof Zając

Description

The Akismet Privacy Policies 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

References

www.wordfence.com

1 affected software package

Software Type	Plugin
Software Slug	akismet-privacy-policies (view on wordpress.org)
Patched?	No
Affected Version	<= 2.0.1
Patched Version

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