CVE-2023-2489 (GCVE-0-2023-2489)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-06-05 13:38 – Updated: 2025-01-08 17:03
VLAI?
Title
Stop Spammers Security < 2023 - Admin+ Stored XSS
Summary
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)
Severity ?
4.8 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CWE
Assigner
References
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/dcbe3334-357a-47… exploitvdb-entrytechnical-description
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Unknown Stop Spammers Security | Block Spam Users, Comments, Forms Affected: 0 , < 2023 (custom)
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Credits
Erwan LR (WPScan) WPScan
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