CVE-2021-42360

MediumCVSS 5.4/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

Description

On sites that also had the Elementor plugin for WordPress installed, it was possible for users with the edit_posts capability, which includes Contributor-level users, to import blocks onto any page using the astra-page-elementor-batch-process AJAX action. An attacker could craft and host a block containing malicious JavaScript on a server they controlled, and then use it to overwrite any post or page by sending an AJAX request with the action set to astra-page-elementor-batch-process and the url parameter pointed to their remotely-hosted malicious block, as well as an id parameter containing the post or page to overwrite. Any post or page that had been built with Elementor, including published pages, could be overwritten by the imported block, and the malicious JavaScript in the imported block would then be executed in the browser of any visitors to that page.

Metrics

CVSS 3.1 5.4/10CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Weakness enumeration

Affected software

No affected versions have been published.

Timeline

Published
Nov 17, 2021
Last modified
Jun 17, 2026
NVD status
Modified

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CVE-2021-42360: Medium severity, CVSS 5.4 | Vulnix