Backup and Staging by WP Time Capsule <= 1.22.6 — Reflected Cross-Site Scripting
CVE-2021-25035Published · Updated Action summary
Affected: ≤1.22.6Update to 1.22.7 or newer
All remediation steps- Severity
- Medium6.1
- CVSS
- 6.1CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:NWhat does this vector mean?
AV:NAttack vector- Network
AC:LAttack complexity- Low
PR:NPrivileges required- None
UI:RUser interaction- Required
S:CScope- Changed
C:LConfidentiality- Low
I:LIntegrity- Low
A:NAvailability- 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?
Backup and Staging by WP Time Capsule wp-time-capsule
- Affected≤ 1.22.6
- Patched in1.22.7
Update to 1.22.7 or newer.
You are affected if you run ≤ 1.22.6. Version 1.22.7 and later are not affected by this issue.
- Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under Backup and Staging by WP Time Capsule.
- 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
- Update to version 1.22.7, or a newer patched version
- Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
- Watch Backup and Staging by WP Time Capsule to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.
Advisory
Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to Jeremie Amsellem.
The Backup and Staging by WP Time Capsule WordPress plugin before 1.22.7 does not sanitise and escape the error parameter before outputting it back in an admin page, leading to a Reflected Cross-Site Scripting
Exploits & references
Proof-of-concept & detection
No public proof-of-concept or detection template is known for this vulnerability.
Advisories & patches
- Advisorywordfence.com
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Timeline
CVE published
Severity medium, CVSS 6.1
Record last updated
Sources & licenses
Wordfence record- Vulnerability data
- Wordfence Intelligence. [object Object] Licensed under the CC BY-SA 4.0.
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- CVSS / CWE
- National Vulnerability Database (NVD), shown unmodified. This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.
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