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CVE-2021-41836

Published: Dec 14, 2021

Modified: Feb 10, 2025

PUBLISHED

CVSS v3.1

4.8

MEDIUM

Description

The Fathom Analytics WordPress plugin is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting due to insufficient input validation and escaping via the $site_id parameter found in the ~/fathom-analytics.php file which allowed attackers with administrative user access to inject arbitrary web scripts, in versions up to and including 3.0.4. This affects multi-site installations where unfiltered_html is disabled for administrators, and sites where unfiltered_html is disabled.

VendorProductVersions

Fathom Analytics

Fathom Analytics

affected
3.0.4 - <= 3.0.4

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-79

CVSS v3.1 Details

CVSS v3.1 Vector

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

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

High

User Interaction

Required

Scope

Changed

Confidentiality

Low

Integrity

Low

Availability

None

References

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