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UK Cyber Defence
VulnerabilityModified

CVE-2021-24272

The fitness calculators WordPress plugin before 1.9.6 add calculators for Water intake, BMI calculator, protein Intake, and Body Fat and was lacking CSRF check, allowing attackers to make logged in users perform unwanted actions, such as change the…

EXPLOITMEDIUM 4.3EPSS 1.81%

Does this matter?

A public exploit is published in Exploit-DB, so the technical barrier is gone even though the severity is medium and EPSS is 1.8%. Treat it as high on anything reachable from the internet.

Description

The fitness calculators WordPress plugin before 1.9.6 add calculators for Water intake, BMI calculator, protein Intake, and Body Fat and was lacking CSRF check, allowing attackers to make logged in users perform unwanted actions, such as change the calculator headers. Due to the lack of sanitisation, this could also lead to a Stored Cross-Site Scripting issue

CVSS 3.1
4.3 MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
EPSS
1.81% probability · 79th percentile
Public exploits
1 in Exploit-DB · first 23 September 2021
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness
CWE-352
Affected
codeinitiator/fitness calculators
Source
contact@wpscan.com
EPSS trend
0%3%5%26 October 2026: 1.81%26 October 202626 October 2026

EPSS 1.8% since 26 October 2026; no change recorded yet. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.

Public exploits (1)

Entries in Exploit-DB that cite this CVE. Links go to the Exploit-DB page and to the file in the public repository; nothing is hosted here. A verified tick means the Exploit-DB team confirmed the exploit works against the stated version.

EDB-IDTitleTypePublishedVerified
EDB-50325source ↗WordPress Plugin Fitness Calculators 1.9.5 - Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)php · 0xB9webapps23 September 2021no

References

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.