# CVE-2021-39354: Easy Digital Downloads <= 2.11.2 Authenticated Reflected Cross-Site Scripting

> Authenticated attackers can inject arbitrary web scripts via date parameters in the Easy Digital Downloads plugin, potentially compromising admin sessions.

- **Severity:** Medium 4.8 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** An administrator
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** A user has to click or open something
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 21 Oct 2021
- **Updated:** 31 Mar 2025

## What is CVE-2021-39354?

CVE-2021-39354 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in Awesomemotive Easy Digital Downloads, published on 21 Oct 2021. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

### Official description

The Easy Digital Downloads WordPress plugin is vulnerable to Reflected Cross-Site Scripting via the $start_date and $end_date parameters found in the ~/includes/admin/payments/class-payments-table.php file which allows attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts, in versions up to and including 2.11.2.

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

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2021-39354?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Awesomemotive Easy Digital Downloads.

## How do I fix CVE-2021-39354?

No fix has been published for CVE-2021-39354 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2021-39354 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2021-39354 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in Awesomemotive Easy Digital Downloads

- [CVE-2023-30869](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-30869/): WordPress Easy Digital Downloads Plugin 3.1-3.1.1.4.1 is vulnerable to Privilege Escalation (critical 9.8)
- [CVE-2022-3600](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-3600/): Easy Digital Downloads < 3.1.0.2 - Unauthenticated CSV Injection (critical 9.8)
- [CVE-2015-9324](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2015-9324/): SQL injection in n/a (critical 9.8)
- [CVE-2024-5057](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-5057/): WordPress Easy Digital Downloads plugin <= 3.2.12 - SQL Injection vulnerability (critical 9.3)
- [CVE-2022-2439](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-2439/): Deserialization in Easy Digital Downloads – eCommerce Payments and Subscriptions made easy (high 7.2)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2021-39354 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2021-39354 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in Awesomemotive Easy Digital Downloads, published on 21 Oct 2021. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2021-39354 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Awesomemotive Easy Digital Downloads. 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-2021-39354/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2021-39354/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-39354
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-39354
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2021-39354

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2021-39354/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.