CVE detail

CVE-2021-24227 — CVE-2021-24227

Published 2021-04-12 · Modified 2026-06-17 · Vendor patreon · Product patreon_wordpress · Source nvd

HIGH

severity

CVSS-derived band

7.5

CVSS v3

0–10 scale

0.0593

EPSS probability

exploitation probability, 30d

93.0%

EPSS percentile

percentile vs all CVEs

NOT LISTED

CISA KEV

known exploited catalog

Description

The Jetpack Scan team identified a Local File Disclosure vulnerability in the Patreon WordPress plugin before 1.7.0 that could be abused by anyone visiting the site. Using this attack vector, an attacker could leak important internal files like wp-config.php, which contains database credentials and cryptographic keys used in the generation of nonces and cookies.

Remediation

No vendor-published fix data in our corpus for this CVE. Check the references below or the vendor's PSIRT / security advisories page.

References

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