Contributor-level script execution via unencoded portfolio fields
Published Mar 18, 2021 · Updated Aug 3, 2024
Stored XSS in Themify Portfolio Post before 1.1.6 allows remote authenticated users to inject script through portfolio Custom Panel fields. The plugin stores Date, Client, Services, and Link to Launch values without validation and renders them without output encoding. Contributor-level access permits payload storage, but script execution requires an editor or administrator to view or preview the crafted post.
Summary
What happened
Stored XSS in Themify Portfolio Post before 1.1.6 allows remote authenticated users to inject script through portfolio Custom Panel fields. The plugin stores Date, Client, Services, and Link to Launch values without validation and renders them without output encoding. Contributor-level access permits payload storage, but script execution requires an editor or administrator to view or preview the crafted post.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2021-24129
- Published
- Mar 18, 2021
- Updated
- Aug 3, 2024
- Vendor
- Themify
- Product
- Themify Portfolio Post
- Classifications
- CWE-79, T1059.007
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- authenticated
Timeline
How it unfolded
- Mar 18, 2021CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Aug 3, 2024Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
Exploitability
Present is not the same as exploitable
Compare your product and version with the public record. A matching version still requires validation against your environment.
Is a vulnerable build present?
Compare these published version ranges with your installed build and any vendor patches.
- Affected versionversion=1.1.6 <1.1.6
What conditions does exploitation require?
What is affected?
Attacks
What attackers are doing with it
Daily unique IPs observed by Shadowserver honeypots for known exploited vulnerabilities (KEVs). Missing observations do not establish an absence of attacks.
Weakness, pattern, technique
Public exploit references
- WPScan Contributor-level stored XSS proof of conceptproof of concept · demonstrated
Labels summarize the accepted research assessment. They do not indicate a test against your environment.
Technologies
Your stack
See the directory against your own environment.
Your stack
Check the software in your environment
Book a demo to see how Hinoki identifies affected software and validates exploitability in your environment.
Book a demo