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medium 6.1

CVE-2021-40975 json

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in application/modules/admin/views/ecommerce/products.php in Ecommerce-CodeIgniter-Bootstrap (Code…

published 5y ago modified 4mo ago also EUVD-2021-28129

cvss
6.1
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.8%
EPSS 0.8% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 58%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in application/modules/admin/views/ecommerce/products.php in Ecommerce-CodeIgniter-Bootstrap (Codeigniter 3.1.11, Bootstrap 3.3.7) allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the search_title parameter.

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Exploit prediction

0.84% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 58% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

Exploits and checks

  • github.com https://github.com/kirilkirkov/Ecommerce-CodeIgniter-Bootstrap/blob/c546a716ba56e8e33b3a5def1c18a6d89c3608f5/application/modules/admin/views/ecommerce/products.php#L37 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 6.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
NVD 2.0 4.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation

References

Sources

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