Starter Templates — Elementor, Gutenberg & Beaver Builder Templates <= 2.7.0 — Missing Authorization to Stored Cross-Site Scripting
CVE-2021-42360Published · Updated Action summary
Affected: ≤2.7.0Update to 2.7.1 or newer
All remediation steps- Severity
- High7.6
- CVSS
- 7.6CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:LWhat does this vector mean?
AV:NAttack vector- Network
AC:LAttack complexity- Low
PR:LPrivileges required- Low
UI:NUser interaction- None
S:UScope- Unchanged
C:LConfidentiality- Low
I:HIntegrity- High
A:LAvailability- Low
- Weakness
- CWE-862 Missing Authorization
- Required access
- Unknown
- Exploit prediction (EPSS)
- No score
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
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Am I affected?
Starter Templates: AI-Powered Website Templates for Elementor & Gutenberg astra-sites
- Affected≤ 2.7.0
- Patched in2.7.1
Update to 2.7.1 or newer.
You are affected if you run ≤ 2.7.0. Version 2.7.1 and later are not affected by this issue.
- Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under Starter Templates: AI-Powered Website Templates for Elementor & Gutenberg.
- No admin access? Run a passive check of your site. It reads public files only.
What to do
- Update to version 2.7.1, or a newer patched version
- Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
- Watch Starter Templates: AI-Powered Website Templates for Elementor & Gutenberg to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.
Advisory
Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to Ram.
On sites that also had the Elementor plugin for WordPress installed, it was possible for users with the edit_posts capability, which includes Contributor-level users, to import blocks onto any page using the astra-page-elementor-batch-process AJAX action. An attacker could craft and host a block containing malicious JavaScript on a server they controlled, and then use it to overwrite any post or page by sending an AJAX request with the action set to astra-page-elementor-batch-process and the url parameter pointed to their remotely-hosted malicious block, as well as an id parameter containing the post or page to overwrite. Any post or page that had been built with Elementor, including published pages, could be overwritten by the imported block, and the malicious JavaScript in the imported block would then be executed in the browser of any visitors to that page.
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 high, CVSS 7.6
Record last updated
Sources & licenses
Wordfence record- Vulnerability data
- Wordfence Intelligence. Copyright 2012-2026 Defiant Inc. Licensed under the CC BY-SA 4.0.
- CVE® identifiers
- Copyright 1999-2026 The MITRE Corporation. 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.
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- Summary, remediation guidance and page layout © VulnCrest. Not sourced from NVD.