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CVE-2021-42364
Stetic <= 1.0.6 Cross-Site Request Forgery to Stored Cross-Site Scripting
High8.8EPSS 0.63%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- Wordfence
Description
The Stetic WordPress plugin is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery due to missing nonce validation via the stats_page function found in the ~/stetic.php file, which made it possible for attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts in versions up to, and including 1.0.6.
Timeline
ID reserved
By Wordfence
- 46 days later
· 46 days later
Published
- 3 years later
· 3 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WordfenceCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | High8.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | High8.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.63% · top 50% of all CVEs (7 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: total
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 8.8.
Weakness
Affected products
What to do
Solution: Uninstall plugin from WordPress site.
References (2)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/stetic/trunk/stetic.php#L129 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://wordfence.com/vulnerability-advisories/#CVE-2021-42364 (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)
- 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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