CVE-2021-42364: Stetic <= 1.0.6 Cross-Site Request Forgery to Stored Cross-Site Scripting

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2021-11-29 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-352

Description

The Stetic WordPress plugin is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery due to missing nonce validation via the stats_page function found in the ~/stetic.php file, which made it possible for attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts in versions up to, and including 1.0.6.

Affected products

Stetic: through 1.0.6

References

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/stetic/trunk/stetic.php#L129
https://wordfence.com/vulnerability-advisories/#CVE-2021-42364
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/stetic/trunk/stetic.php#L129
https://wordfence.com/vulnerability-advisories/#CVE-2021-42364

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