Stop Spammers Security < 2023 - Admin+ Stored XSS
CVE-2023-2489

4.8MEDIUM

Key Information:

Vendor

Wordpress
Status
Stop Spammers Security | Block Spam Users, Comments, Forms
Vendor
CVE Published:
5 June 2023

What is CVE-2023-2489?

The Stop Spammers Security | Block Spam Users, Comments, Forms WordPress plugin before 2023 does not sanitise and escape some of its settings, which could allow high privilege users such as admin to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed (for example in multisite setup)

Affected Version(s)

Stop Spammers Security | Block Spam Users, Comments, Forms 0 < 2023

References

https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/dcbe3334-357a-4744-b50c-...
exploitvdb-entrytechnical-description

CVSS V3.1

Score:
4.8
Severity:
MEDIUM
Confidentiality:
Low
Integrity:
Low
Availability:
Low
Attack Vector:
Network
Attack Complexity:
Low
Privileges Required:
High
User Interaction:
Required
Scope:
Changed

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

Credit

Erwan LR (WPScan)
WPScan
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