Goto - Tour & Travel WordPress Theme < 2.0 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting
Strategic Overview
- Status
- Patched in 2.0
- Affected Theme
- Goto - Tour & Travel WordPress Theme
- Affected Version
< 2.0- CVSS
- 6.1Medium
- Weakness type
- CWE-79 · Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
- CVE
CVE-2021-24235
At a glance
CVE-2021-24235 is a medium-severity Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') vulnerability in the Goto - Tour & Travel WordPress Theme WordPress theme, affecting versions < 2.0. It carries a CVSS score of 6.1 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity). Exploitation requires no authentication. The issue is fixed in version 2.0; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed February 2021, reported by R3N0.
Vulnerability Overview
The Goto WordPress theme before 2.0 does not sanitise the keywords and start_date GET parameter on its Tour List page, leading to an unauthenticated reflected Cross-Site Scripting issue.
Technical Analysis
The vector marks this flaw as remotely reachable over the network, with low attack complexity — no special timing or configuration is needed, and no privileges on the target site.
CWE-79: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
Reaching this weakness in Goto - Tour & Travel WordPress Theme < 2.0 takes a caller who can reach the endpoint. Cross-site scripting happens when input from a request is written into a page without being escaped for the context it lands in, so the browser parses attacker-supplied text as markup or script.
Injected script runs with the privileges of whoever views the affected page, which is how these flaws turn into administrator session theft, silent account creation or persistent backdoors in page content. For Goto - Tour & Travel WordPress Theme the fix is 2.0: builds < 2.0 are affected, anything from 2.0 onward is not.
Remediation
Update to version 2.0, or a newer patched version
How does WordSec protect against this?
The attempt arrives as an ordinary request to Goto - Tour & Travel WordPress Theme: WordSec's web application firewall inspects request payloads before WordPress loads them. None of that substitutes for the fix: Goto - Tour & Travel WordPress Theme 2.0 closes this, and updating the theme is the step that ends it.
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