CVE-2021-38316: WP Academic People List <= 0.4.1 Reflected Cross-Site Scripting

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.1 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2021-09-09 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

The WP Academic People List WordPress plugin is vulnerable to Reflected Cross-Site Scripting via the category_name parameter in the ~/admin-panel.php file which allows attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts, in versions up to and including 0.4.1.

Affected products

WP Academic People List: through 0.4.1

References

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-academic-people/tags/0.4.1/admin-panel.php#L57
https://www.wordfence.com/vulnerability-advisories/#CVE-2021-38316
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-academic-people/tags/0.4.1/admin-panel.php#L57
https://www.wordfence.com/vulnerability-advisories/#CVE-2021-38316

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