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CVE-2021-3980

25
FAUCET Score

CVE-2021-3980 describes a high-severity vulnerability in Elgg, an open-source social networking engine, where private personal information can be exposed to unauthorized actors. With a CVSS score of 7.5, this vulnerability allows unauthenticated attackers to remotely access sensitive data without user interaction, leading to a high confidentiality impact. Despite its severity, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 3.3.23CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:elgg:elgg:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

5.3MEDIUM

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
LOW
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
1.4
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.55%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
72.4%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0155 is in the 54th percentile among its peer group of 51,485 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media 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

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (3)

composerpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: elgg/elggFixed in: 3.3.23
composerpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: elgg/elggFixed in: 4.0.5
github_advisorypatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

composerGHSA-hx6g-q9v2-xh7vhigh

Information exposure in elgg

Dec 16, 2021

References

github.com / elgg/elgg/commit/572d210e2392f1fdf47ff2f38665372a6535c126
PatchThird Party Advisory
huntr.dev / bounties/1f43f11e-4bd8-451f-a244-dc9541cdc0ac
ExploitThird Party Advisory