YITH Maintenance Mode <= 1.3.7 — Stored Cross-Site Scripting
CVE-2021-36841Published · Updated Action summary
Affected: ≤1.3.7Update to 1.3.8 or newer
All remediation steps- Severity
- Medium6.9
- CVSS
- 6.9CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:L/A:NWhat does this vector mean?
AV:NAttack vector- Network
AC:LAttack complexity- Low
PR:HPrivileges required- High
UI:RUser interaction- Required
S:CScope- Changed
C:HConfidentiality- High
I:LIntegrity- Low
A:NAvailability- None
- Weakness
- CWE-79 Cross-Site Scripting
- Required access
- Unknown
- Exploit prediction (EPSS)
- No score
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
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Am I affected?
YITH Maintenance Mode yith-maintenance-mode
- Affected≤ 1.3.7
- Patched in1.3.8
Update to 1.3.8 or newer.
You are affected if you run ≤ 1.3.7. Version 1.3.8 and later are not affected by this issue.
- Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under YITH Maintenance Mode.
- No admin access? Run a passive check of your site. It reads public files only.
What to do
- Update to version 1.3.8, or a newer patched version
- Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
- Watch YITH Maintenance Mode to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.
Advisory
Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to Asif Nawaz Minhas.
Authenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in YITH Maintenance Mode (WordPress plugin) versions <= 1.3.7, vulnerable parameter &yith_maintenance_newsletter_submit_label. Possible even when unfiltered HTML is disallowed by WordPress configuration.
Exploits & references
Proof-of-concept & detection
No public proof-of-concept or detection template is known for this vulnerability.
Advisories & patches
- Advisorywordfence.com
Related CVEs
More in YITH Maintenance Mode
All 3| Severity | Vulnerability | CVE | Published |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medium6.9 | Multiple Authenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting ≤1.3.8Update to 1.4.0 | CVE-2021-36845 | |
| Medium6.1 | Reflected Cross-Site Scripting ≤1.1.4Update to 1.2.0 | CVE-2015-9429 |
- Medium6.9Multiple Authenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting
≤1.3.8Update to 1.4.0
- Medium6.1Reflected Cross-Site Scripting
≤1.1.4Update to 1.2.0
Same weakness (Cross-Site Scripting)
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| Critical9.8 | Unauthenticated Arbitrary File Upload via File Upload via Public Form Submission | CVE-2026-125055 | |
| Critical9.8 | Unauthenticated PHP Object Injection to Remote Code Execution via 'form' Parameter | CVE-2026-119077 | |
| Medium5.3 | Unauthenticated Sensitive Information Exposure in 'search' Parameter | CVE-2026-121518 |
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Timeline
CVE published
Severity medium, CVSS 6.9
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.
