CVE-2021-36888 is a critical unauthenticated arbitrary options update vulnerability affecting the Image Hover Effects Ultimate WordPress plugin versions 9.6.1 and earlier. This flaw allows an attacker to fully compromise a website without authentication. With a CVSS score of 9.8 (Critical), the vulnerability is easily exploitable over the network with low attack complexity, leading to complete confidentiality, integrity, and availability compromise. While not listed in CISA's KEV catalog, public Nuclei templates exist for exploitation, and it has garnered significant community discussion with 10 mentions.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
< 9.6.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:blocksera:image_hover_effects:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.3 Mastodon, and 2.4 GitHub mentions.
No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.