CVE-2021-24272

MEDIUM 4.3CVE-2021-24272 · Published 05/05/2021 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2021-24272 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 4.3) vulnerability affecting fitness calculators (codeinitiator).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 1.8%, higher than 78.8% of all vulnerabilities.
Fix: update to 1.9.6 or later.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
fitness calculators codeinitiator	`< 1.9.6`	`1.9.6`

Description

The fitness calculators WordPress plugin before 1.9.6 add calculators for Water intake, BMI calculator, protein Intake, and Body Fat and was lacking CSRF check, allowing attackers to make logged in users perform unwanted actions, such as change the calculator headers. Due to the lack of sanitisation, this could also lead to a Stored Cross-Site Scripting issue

References

packetstormsecurity.com/files/164261/WordPress-Fitness-Calculators-1.9.5-Cross-Site-Request-Forgery.html · Exploit
wpscan.com/vulnerability/e643040b-1f3b-4c13-8a20-acfd069dcc4f · Exploit

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