CVE-2022-2351 (GCVE-0-2022-2351)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-09-16 08:40 – Updated: 2024-08-03 00:32
VLAI
Title
Post SMTP < 2.1.4 - Admin+ Stored Cross-Site Scripting
Summary
The Post SMTP Mailer/Email Log WordPress plugin before 2.1.4 does not escape some of its settings before outputting them in the admins dashboard, allowing high privilege users to perform Cross-Site Scripting attacks against other users even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed.
Severity
4.8 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CWE
  • CWE-79 - Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Unknown Post SMTP Mailer/Email Log Affected: 2.1.4 , < 2.1.4 (custom)
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Credits
Raad Haddad of Cloudyrion GmbH
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