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CVE-2021-4222WP Paginate < 2.1.4 - Admin+ Stored Cross-Site Scripting
- 4.8MediumCVSS base score
- 0.81%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 43% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
The WP-Paginate WordPress plugin before 2.1.4 does not sanitise and escape its preset settings, allowing high privilege users such as admin to perform Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html is disallowed
Timeline
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By WPScan
- 9 days later
· 9 days later
Published
- 2 years later
· 2 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Medium4.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.81% · top 43% of all CVEs (13 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.8.
Affected products
- affected 2.1.4 – < 2.1.4
References
References2
- https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/6df5f5b1-f10b-488e-80b3-2c024bbb8c78 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://packetstormsecurity.com/files/160800/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2021-34080 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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