# CVE-2021-24272: Fitness Calculators < 1.9.6 - Cross-Site Request Forgery to Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)

> Attackers can exploit missing CSRF checks to force logged-in users to modify calculator settings, potentially leading to stored XSS.

- **Severity:** Medium 4.3 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Not needed
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** A user has to click or open something
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 5 May 2021
- **Updated:** 3 Aug 2024
- **Also known as:** GHSA-c867-3fv3-7vjg

## What is CVE-2021-24272?

CVE-2021-24272 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Unknown fitness calculators, published on 5 May 2021. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

### Official 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

Weakness: CWE-352 (Cross-Site Request Forgery)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2021-24272?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Codeinitiator Fitness Calculators.

## How do I fix CVE-2021-24272?

No fix has been published for CVE-2021-24272 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2021-24272 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2021-24272 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Public exploit code:

- WordPress Plugin Fitness Calculators 1.9.5 - Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) (exploitdb)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2021-24272 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2021-24272 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Unknown fitness calculators, published on 5 May 2021. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2021-24272 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Unknown fitness calculators. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2021-24272/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2021-24272/index.md)
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## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-24272
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-24272
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2021-24272

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2021-24272/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.