CVE-2023-3510 (GCVE-0-2023-3510)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-09-11 19:46 – Updated: 2024-08-02 06:55
VLAI
Title
FTP Access <= 1.0 - Subscriber+ Stored XSS
Summary
The FTP Access WordPress plugin through 1.0 does not have authorisation and CSRF checks when updating its settings and is missing sanitisation as well as escaping in them, allowing any authenticated users, such as subscriber to update them with XSS payloads, which will be triggered when an admin will view the settings of the plugin. The attack could also be perform via CSRF against any authenticated user.
Severity
5.4 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CWE
Assigner
WPScan CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard E 44/100 over 2018 records in the last 180 days details
References
URL Tags
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/76abf4ac-5cc1-41… exploitvdb-entrytechnical-description
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Unknown FTP Access Affected: 0 , ≤ 1.0 (custom)
guessed Create a notification for this product.
Credits
Bob Matyas WPScan
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