🛡️ CVE-2021-36020 — community-edition

🟠 CVSS 8.0 — High ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-91 OSV
8.0
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

Magento XML Injection vulnerability in the 'City' field

Magento Commerce versions 2.4.2 (and earlier), 2.4.2-p1 (and earlier) and 2.3.7 (and earlier) are affected by an XML Injection vulnerability in the 'City' field. An unauthenticated attacker can trigger a specially crafted script to achieve remote code execution.

Weakness class

CVE-2021-36020 is classified as CWE-91: XML Injection. Untrusted data is inserted into an XML document or query, changing its structure rather than only its content.

Affected software

CVE-2021-36020 is recorded against 2 packages.

  • magento/community-edition
  • magento/project-community-edition

Timeline and source

Published on 24 May 2022 and last revised on 7 November 2025. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

nvd.nist.gov (Advisory)
github.com (Package)
helpx.adobe.com (Web)

Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 8.0
CVSS Vector N/A
CWE CWE-91
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2022-05-24
Updated 2026-08-12
Modified 2025-11-07
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
magento/community-edition
magento/project-community-edition

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