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WEB APPLICATION VULNERABILITIES Standard & Premium

Magento XML Injection (aka Blind XPath Injection) Vulnerability (CVE-2021-21019)

Description

Magento versions 2.4.1 (and earlier), 2.4.0-p1 (and earlier) and 2.3.6 (and earlier) are vulnerable to XML injection in the Widgets module. Successful exploitation could lead to arbitrary code execution by an authenticated attacker. Access to the admin console is required for successful exploitation.

Remediation

References

CVE-2021-21019

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Severity

Critical

Classification

CVE-2021-21019 CWE-91 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

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