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CVE-2021-43481

46
FAUCET Score

CVE-2021-43481 is a critical SQL Injection vulnerability affecting Webtareas 2.4p3 and earlier versions, specifically through the $uq HTTP POST parameter in editapprovalstage.php. This vulnerability carries a CVSS score of 9.8, indicating a severe risk due to its network-based attack vector, low attack complexity, and high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While there is no evidence of active exploitation in the wild, an authenticated blind SQLi exploit is publicly available on ExploitDB, and the vulnerability has garnered significant community discussion.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 2.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:webtareas_project:webtareas:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:webtareas_project:webtareas:2.4:-:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:webtareas_project:webtareas:2.4:p3:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

9.8CRITICAL

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
5.61%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
92.1%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-50893 · May 11, 2022
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0561 is in the 86th percentile among its peer group of 36,897 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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.

Media 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

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

packetstormsecurity.com / files/167026/WebTareas-2.4-SQL-Injection.html
ExploitThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
behradtaher.dev / 2021/11/05/Discovering-a-Blind-SQL-Injection-Whitebox-Approach
ExploitTechnical DescriptionThird Party Advisory
sourceforge.net / projects/webtareas
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