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Security advisory
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.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2021-25984
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 11:41 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
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.
osv:CVE-2021-25984
Complete source record
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