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Asset CleanUp <= 1.3.8.4 — Reflected Cross-Site Scripting via AJAX Action

CVE-2021-24983Published · Updated

Action summary

Affected: <1.3.8.5Update to 1.3.8.5 or newer

All remediation steps
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Severity
Medium6.1
CVSS
6.1
CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
What does this vector mean?
AV:N Attack vector
Network
AC:L Attack complexity
Low
PR:N Privileges required
None
UI:R User interaction
Required
S:C Scope
Changed
C:L Confidentiality
Low
I:L Integrity
Low
A:N Availability
None
Weakness
CWE-79 Cross-Site Scripting
Required access
No account needed
Exploit prediction (EPSS)
No score
CISA KEV
Not listed
On this page8

Am I affected?

Asset CleanUp: Page Speed Booster wp-asset-clean-up

  1. Affected< 1.3.8.5
  2. Patched in1.3.8.5

Update to 1.3.8.5 or newer.

You are affected if you run < 1.3.8.5. Version 1.3.8.5 and later are not affected by this issue.

  • Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under Asset CleanUp: Page Speed Booster.
  • No admin access? Run a passive check of your site. It reads public files only.
  • No account is needed to exploit this. Treat any exposed site on an affected version as at risk.

What to do

  1. Update to version 1.3.8.5, or a newer patched version
  2. Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
  3. Watch Asset CleanUp: Page Speed Booster to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.

Advisory

Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to ZhongFu Su.

The Asset CleanUp: Page Speed Booster WordPress plugin before 1.3.8.5 does not sanitise and escape POSted parameters sent to the wpassetcleanup_fetch_active_plugins_icons AJAX action (available to admin users), leading to a Reflected Cross-Site Scripting issue

Exploits & references

Proof-of-concept & detection

No public proof-of-concept or detection template is known for this vulnerability.

Advisories & patches

More in Asset CleanUp: Page Speed Booster

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Medium5.5Authenticated (Admin+) Server-Side Request Forgery
≤1.3.9.8Update to 1.3.9.9
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Timeline

  1. CVE published

    Severity medium, CVSS 6.1

  2. Record last updated

Sources & licenses

Wordfence record
Vulnerability data
Wordfence Intelligence. [object Object] Licensed under the CC BY-SA 4.0.
CVE® identifiers
[object Object]. Used under the CVE Program. CVE® is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation.
CVSS / CWE
National Vulnerability Database (NVD), shown unmodified. This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.
VulnCrest content
Summary, remediation guidance and page layout © VulnCrest. Not sourced from NVD.

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