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

CVE-2021-3135

Medium
6.1/10

Summary

An issue was discovered in the tagDiv Newspaper theme 10.3.9.1 for WordPress. It allows XSS via the wp-admin/admin-ajax.php td_block_id parameter in a td_ajax_block API call.

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  • NETWORK
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  • CHANGED
  • REQUIRED
  • NONE
  • LOW
  • NONE

CWE-79 - Cross Site Scripting

Cross-Site Scripting, commonly referred to as XSS, is the most dominant class of vulnerabilities. It allows an attacker to inject malicious code into a pregnable web application and victimize its users. The exploitation of such a weakness can cause severe issues such as account takeover, and sensitive data exfiltration. Because of the prevalence of XSS vulnerabilities and their high rate of exploitation, it has remained in the OWASP top 10 vulnerabilities for years.

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