CVE-2021-38316

MEDIUM 6.1CVE-2021-38316 · Published 09/09/2021 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2021-38316 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 6.1) vulnerability affecting wp academic people list (wp academic people list project).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 0.94%, higher than 61.1% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
wp academic people list wp_academic_people_list_project	`≤ 0.4.1`	No fix yet

Description

The WP Academic People List WordPress plugin is vulnerable to Reflected Cross-Site Scripting via the category_name parameter in the ~/admin-panel.php file which allows attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts, in versions up to and including 0.4.1.

References

plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-academic-people/tags/0.4.1/admin-panel.php · Exploit
wordfence.com/vulnerability-advisories · Third Party Advisory

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