CVE-2021-24922 describes a critical vulnerability in the Pixel Cat WordPress plugin prior to version 2.6.2, affecting fatcatapps pixel_cat. This flaw allows for Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) due to a missing CSRF check and improper sanitization/escaping of settings, enabling an attacker to manipulate a logged-in administrator into performing Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) attacks. With a CVSS score of 9.0 (CRITICAL), the vulnerability has a low attack complexity and requires user interaction, but can lead to high impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. Currently, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
< 2.6.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:fatcatapps:pixel_cat:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.6 Bluesky, 0.3 Mastodon, and 1.6 GitHub mentions.
No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.