CVE-2021-40971

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.1 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2021-10-01 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in templates/installer/step-004.inc.php in spotweb 1.5.1 and below allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the newpassword1 parameter.

Affected products

Spotweb Project Spotweb: through 1.5.1

References

https://github.com/spotweb/spotweb
https://github.com/spotweb/spotweb/issues/711
https://github.com/spotweb/spotweb
https://github.com/spotweb/spotweb/issues/711

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