Is CVE-2021-25080 in the CISA KEV catalog?

No. CVE-2021-25080 is not currently on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities list.

What is the CVSS severity of CVE-2021-25080?

CVE-2021-25080 has a CVSS v3 base score of 6.1 (MEDIUM).

What is the EPSS score for CVE-2021-25080?

CVE-2021-25080 has an EPSS score of 84.20% (100th percentile), estimating the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days.

How do I fix CVE-2021-25080?

Upgrade contact form entries to 1.1.7 or later.

CVE & CISA-KEV Catalog

CVE-2021-25080

MEDIUMEPSS 100th pctl

6.1

CVSS v3

NVD

Description

The Contact Form Entries WordPress plugin before 1.1.7 does not validate, sanitise and escape the IP address retrieved via headers such as CLIENT-IP and X-FORWARDED-FOR, allowing unauthenticated attackers to perform Cross-Site Scripting attacks against logged in admins viewing the created entry

CWE-79Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)

How to fix

Remediation Available

contact form entriesNVD

Affected:< 1.1.7Fixed in:1.1.7CVE-2021-25080derived from NVD

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Remediation is compiled from vendor and distribution security advisories. Always confirm against the linked source for your exact version and platform.

CVSS v3 Vector

Exploitability

Attack VectorNetwork

Attack ComplexityLow

Privileges RequiredNone

User InteractionRequired

ScopeChanged

Impact

ConfidentialityLow

IntegrityLow

AvailabilityNone

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Exploit Intelligence

84.20%probability of exploitation in 30 days

100thpercentile

Very high risk: more likely to be exploited than 100% of all known CVEs.

References

Patch1

plugins.trac.wordpress.org

Exploit1

wpscan.com

Related Vulnerabilities

Other CWE-79 (Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)) vulnerabilities, ordered by exploit likelihood. View all

CVE	Severity	CVSS	EPSS	Exploited	Fix
CVE-2020-11022	Medium	6.9	99%	-	Fix
CVE-2019-3929	Critical	9.8	99%	KEV	Fix
CVE-2020-9496	Medium	6.1	99%	-	-
CVE-2023-28341	Medium	6.1	99%	-	Fix
CVE-2018-12998	Medium	6.1	98%	-	-
CVE-2025-4123	High	7.6	98%	-	Fix

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This product uses NVD data but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD. EPSS scores courtesy of FIRST.org (https://www.first.org/epss). Source: CISA KEV Catalog. Data as of 2024-11-21.