CVE-2021-25984

FactorJS - Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) in Post Reply Functionality

State: Published
Severity: 6.1 Medium
Published: Nov 16, 2021
Updated: Apr 30, 2025
Reserved: Jan 22, 2021

Description

In Factor (App Framework & Headless CMS) forum plugin, versions v1.3.3 to v1.8.30, are vulnerable to stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) at the “post reply” section. An unauthenticated attacker can execute malicious JavaScript code and steal the session cookies.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	6.1 Medium	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N	Mend

Weaknesses

CWE-79 Cross-site Scripting (XSS)

Affected Products

Product	Versions
FactorFactorJS	1.3.3 to before unspecifiedAffected 1.8.30 and earlierAffected

References

https://github.com/FactorJS/factor/blob/v1.8.30/%40plugins/plugin-forum/topic-reply.vue#L119
https://www.whitesourcesoftware.com/vulnerability-database/CVE-2021-25984

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