CVE-2021-25078: Affiliates Manager < 2.9.0 - Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.1 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2022-01-24 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

The Affiliates Manager WordPress plugin before 2.9.0 does not validate, sanitise and escape the IP address of requests logged by the click tracking feature, allowing unauthenticated attackers to perform Cross-Site Scripting attacks against admin viewing the tracked requests.

Affected products

Affiliates Manager: before 2.9.0 — fixed in 2.9.0

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Affiliates Manager 2.9.0. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/2648196
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/d4edb5f2-aa1b-4e2d-abb4-76c46def6c6e
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/2648196
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/d4edb5f2-aa1b-4e2d-abb4-76c46def6c6e

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