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CVE-2021-24249· NVD / CVE Program· CNA WPScan

Business Directory Plugin < 5.11.2 - Arbitrary Listing Export

The Business Directory Plugin – Easy Listing Directories for WordPress WordPress plugin before 5.11.2 suffered from a Cross-Site Request Forgery issue, allowing an attacker to make a logged in administrator export files, which could then be downloaded by the attacker to get access to PII, such as email, home addresses etc

MediumCVSS 6.5 · v3.1—No exploit No fix recorded

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Published
May 6, 2021
Updated
Jun 16, 2026
EPSS
0.7% · 52th percentile
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Action score

26

Monitor

Low priority for now.

CVSS
26 / 40 · 6.5 / 10
CISA KEV
0 / 30 · Not listed
EPSS
0 / 30 · 0.7%

Affected systems

VendorProduct
strategy11business directory plugin - easy listing directories

Affected versions

NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.

  • strategy11 business directory plugin - easy listing directoriesbefore 5.11.2

Versions reported by the vendor

Affected version ranges reported by the assigning authority (WPScan). Independent of NVD's CPE analysis and usually ahead of it.

  • Business Directory Team Business Directory Plugin – Easy Listing Directories for WordPress

    • 5.11.2 and later · before 5.11.2affected

Same product

strategy11: all records

Other highest-scoring records for the same primary product.

  • CVE-2021-24179Business Directory Plugin < 5.11 - Arbitrary File Upload to RCE
    35Monitor
  • CVE-2021-24178Business Directory Plugin < 5.11.1 - Arbitrary Add/Edit/Delete Form Field to Stored XSS
    35Monitor
  • CVE-2021-24248Business Directory Plugin < 5.11.1 - Authenticated PHP4 Upload to RCE
    28Monitor
  • CVE-2021-24250Business Directory Plugin < 5.11.2 - Authenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting
    21Monitor
  • CVE-2021-24251Business Directory Plugin < 5.11.2 - Arbitrary Payment History Update
    17Monitor

Remediation

Which version to upgrade to

Fix versions compiled from the vendor, package registries and Microsoft. Verify the vendor's note before upgrading.

No fix version is recorded for this entry. Check the references for vendor advisories.

Exploit status

No known public exploit

No public exploit has been observed yet. That doesn't mean you're safe, only that the bar is a little higher.

Research context

For pentesters and researchers: attack profile, score disagreement, timeline, patch commits, credits, variant and chain candidates, bug bounty scope. All derived from existing data; no exploit code.

Timeline

From publication to today: proof of concept, Metasploit module, CISA KEV and fix record. Dates are as reported by the sources.

No dated events beyond publication.

EPSS, last 120 days

FIRST EPSS daily score; only changes of 0.01 or more are recorded (step chart).

Patch and commit links

Commit, PR and diff links among the references. A starting point for patch-diffing and variant hunting; fixes, not exploits.

No commit or PR link among the references.

Credits

All researchers

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Variant candidates

Same product, same weakness class, within 18 months. If the patch missed the root cause, the sibling bug is here.

No nightly-computed relations.

Chain candidates

An authentication bypass and a privilege-requiring bug in the same product, published close together: combined they may become an unauthenticated path.

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Bug bounty scope

No known public program.

Source: bounty-targets-data (public HackerOne, Bugcrowd, Intigriti, YesWeHack listings).

Technical details

Attack conditions

  • Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it.
  • No account or password is required.
  • A user must open a link or visit a page.
  • No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.

If successful

Confidentiality
high · data can be read
Integrity
none
Availability
none
Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
None
User interaction
Required
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality impact
High
Integrity impact
None
Availability impact
None

Weakness class (CWE)

CWE-352 · Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

nvd-primary

Root cause

State-changing requests rely on the session cookie the browser sends automatically; nothing verifies that the request came from the user’s own page.

The bug in code

The whole CWE-352 class

A representative example of this vulnerability class. Not the vendor's source code; it shows the faulty pattern and its fix.

Vulnerable

ts
app.use(session({ cookie: { httpOnly: true } }));app.post("/account/address", updateAddress);

Fixed

ts
app.use(session({ cookie: { httpOnly: true, sameSite: "lax" } }));app.post("/account/address", csrfProtection, updateAddress);

Attack context

MITRE CAPEC attack patterns and ATT&CK techniques for this weakness class (CWE). A starting point for detection rules and threat hunting.

ATT&CK techniques

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Change log

No changes recorded on tracked fields yet. Score, KEV, exploit maturity and fix status changes appear here.

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