CVE-2021-4428
A vulnerability has been found in what3words Autosuggest Plugin up to 4.0.0 on WordPress and classified as problematic.
Does this matter?
EPSS puts the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days at 15.8%, higher than 97% of all known CVEs. Patch or mitigate before the next change window.
Description
A vulnerability has been found in what3words Autosuggest Plugin up to 4.0.0 on WordPress and classified as problematic. Affected by this vulnerability is the function enqueue_scripts of the file w3w-autosuggest/public/class-w3w-autosuggest-public.php of the component Setting Handler. The manipulation leads to information disclosure. The attack can be launched remotely. Upgrading to version 4.0.1 is able to address this issue. The patch is named dd59cbac5f86057d6a73b87007c08b8bfa0c32ac. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component. The associated identifier of this vulnerability is VDB-234247.
- CVSS 3.1
- 7.5 HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
- EPSS
- 15.81% probability · 97th percentile
- Public exploits
- None in Exploit-DB
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-200
- Affected
- what3words/autosuggest
- Source
- cna@vuldb.com
EPSS 15.8% since 26 October 2026; no change recorded yet. The dashed line is the ten per cent mark our analysts treat as “patch before the next change window”. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.
References
- https://github.com/what3words/wordpress-autosuggest-plugin/commit/dd59cbac5f86057d6a73b87007c08b8bfa0c32acPatch
- https://github.com/what3words/wordpress-autosuggest-plugin/pull/20Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://github.com/what3words/wordpress-autosuggest-plugin/releases/tag/v4.0.1Release Notes
- https://vuldb.com/?ctiid.234247Permissions Required
- https://vuldb.com/?id.234247Permissions Required
- https://github.com/what3words/wordpress-autosuggest-plugin/commit/dd59cbac5f86057d6a73b87007c08b8bfa0c32acPatch
- https://github.com/what3words/wordpress-autosuggest-plugin/pull/20Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://github.com/what3words/wordpress-autosuggest-plugin/releases/tag/v4.0.1Release Notes
- https://vuldb.com/?ctiid.234247Permissions Required
- https://vuldb.com/?id.234247Permissions Required
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.