Medium severity6.1NVD Advisory· Published Nov 16, 2021· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2021-25983

Description

In Factor (App Framework & Headless CMS) forum plugin, versions v1.3.8 to v1.8.30, are vulnerable to reflected Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) at the “tags” and “category” parameters in the URL. An unauthenticated attacker can execute malicious JavaScript code and steal the session cookies.

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Affected products

Darwin/Factor
cpe:2.3:a:darwin:factor:*:*:*:*:*:node.js:*:*
Range: >=1.3.8,<=1.8.30
Factor/Factorllm-create
Range: v1.3.8 to v1.8.30
FactorJS/Factorv5
Range: 1.3.8

Patches

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References

www.whitesourcesoftware.com/vulnerability-database/CVE-2021-25983nvdThird Party Advisory
github.com/FactorJS/factor/blob/v1.8.30/%40plugins/plugin-forum/topic-list.vuenvd

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