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CVE-2021-38325: User Activation Email <= 1.3.0 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 User Activation Email WordPress plugin is vulnerable to Reflected Cross-Site Scripting via the uae-key parameter found in the ~/user-activation-email.php file which allows attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts, in versions up to and including 1.3.0.

Affected products

• User Activation Email: through 1.3.0

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/user-activation-email/tags/1.3.0/user-activation-email.php#L191
• https://www.wordfence.com/vulnerability-advisories/#CVE-2021-38325
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/user-activation-email/tags/1.3.0/user-activation-email.php#L191
• https://www.wordfence.com/vulnerability-advisories/#CVE-2021-38325

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