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CRITICAL

CVE-2021-4072

CVE-2021-4072 — Cross-site Scripting (XSS) - Stored in elgg/elgg

elgg is vulnerable to Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

Published Updated Sources: cvelistV5, @huntrdev

Triage

Is it exploited, how likely is exploitation, what does it touch, and how severe do the scoring sources call it.

Exploitation

Unreported

no source claims exploitation

EPSS

1%

chance of exploitation in 30 days

Affects

elgg

elgg_elgg

CVSS base

9

CRITICAL

Affected scope

The catalog records vendors and products as separate lists, not pairs, so which product belongs to which vendor is not something this page can say.

Vendors (1)

Products (1)

elgg elgg

Every base score collected

Sources score independently and disagree; each row says who scored it and under which version.

ScoreVersionSeverityExpl.ImpactSource
9CVSS 3.0CRITICALcvelistV5

Weakness & attack patterns

  • CWE-79

References

2 on the record

Elsewhere on this site

  • elggevery CVE for this vendor
  • CWE-79other pages naming this weakness

Not in any source we poll

Listed rather than left blank: an empty field and an unmeasured one look identical on screen, and only one is a reason to look elsewhere.

  • No confirmed IOCs, IP addresses, domains, file hashes, or malware artifacts supplied.
  • No organization-specific asset inventory, compensating-control status, or patch deployment evidence supplied.
  • No exploit packet captures, log samples, or incident case IDs supplied.