# CVE-2021-25060: Five Star Business Profile and Schema < 2.1.7 - Subscriber+ Page Creation & Settings Update to Stored XSS

> Authenticated users can inject malicious scripts via AJAX actions due to missing authorization and sanitization, leading to stored XSS.

- **Severity:** Medium 5.4 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** A user has to click or open something
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 21 Feb 2022
- **Updated:** 3 Aug 2024
- **Also known as:** GHSA-hj2f-j483-4hvv

## What is CVE-2021-25060?

CVE-2021-25060 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in Unknown Five Star Business Profile and Schema, published on 21 Feb 2022. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

### Official description

The Five Star Business Profile and Schema WordPress plugin before 2.1.7 does not have any authorisation and CSRF in its bpfwp_welcome_add_contact_page and bpfwp_welcome_set_contact_information AJAX action, allowing any authenticated users, such as subscribers, to call them. Furthermore, due to the lack of sanitisation, it also lead to Stored Cross-Site Scripting issues

Weakness: CWE-79 (Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2021-25060?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Fivestarplugins Five Star Business Profile and Schema.

## How do I fix CVE-2021-25060?

No fix has been published for CVE-2021-25060 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2021-25060 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2021-25060 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2021-25060 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2021-25060 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in Unknown Five Star Business Profile and Schema, published on 21 Feb 2022. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2021-25060 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Unknown Five Star Business Profile and Schema. 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-2021-25060/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2021-25060/index.md)
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## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-25060
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-25060
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2021-25060

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2021-25060/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.