Pixel Cat Lite < 2.6.2 - CSRF to Stored Cross-Site Scripting

published 2021-12-13 4 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2021-11834

cvss: 9.0; version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 0.6%; EPSS 0.6% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 46%
public exploits: 0; none known

The Pixel Cat WordPress plugin before 2.6.2 does not have CSRF check when saving its settings, and did not sanitise as well as escape some of them, which could allow attacker to make a logged in admin change them and perform Cross-Site Scripting attacks

Patch / fix

fixed in 1

fatcatapps pixel_cat 2.6.2

Exploit prediction

0.55% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 46% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

wpscan.com https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/399ffd65-f3c0-4fbe-a83a-2a620976aad2 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
NVD	3.1	9.0	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD	2.0	6.0	AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P

Affected products

Unknown Pixel Cat – Conversion Pixel Manager

Classification

Weakness

CWE-352 Cross-Site Request Forgery

Technology feeds

WordPress rss critical rss

References

wpscan.com /vulnerability/399ffd65-f3c0-4fbe-a83a-2a620976aad2
exploit, third-party-advisory

Sources

CVE List CVE-2021-24922
NVD CVE-2021-24922

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Summary