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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2021-37365

CTparental before 4.45.03 is vulnerable to cross-site scripting (XSS) in the CTparental admin panel. In bl_categires_help.php, the 'categories' variable is assigned with the content of the query string param 'cat' without sanitization or encoding, enabling an attacker to inject malicious code into the output webpage.

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31 Oct 2026, 12:00 UTC · Revision 1

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CVE-2021-37365

core-osv · Original source

Published 10 Aug 2021, 17:15 UTC

CTparental before 4.45.03 is vulnerable to cross-site scripting (XSS) in the CTparental admin panel. In bl_categires_help.php, the 'categories' variable is assigned with the content of the query string param 'cat' without sanitization or encoding, enabling an attacker to inject malicious code into the output webpage.

osv:CVE-2021-37365
Complete source record
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