CVE-2023-5641 (GCVE-0-2023-5641)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-11-27 16:22 – Updated: 2024-08-02 08:07
VLAI
Title
Martins Free & Easy SEO Link buildings < 1.2.30 - Reflected XSS
Summary
The Martins Free & Easy SEO BackLink Link Building Network WordPress plugin before 1.2.30 does not sanitise and escape a parameter before outputting it back in the page, leading to a Reflected Cross-Site Scripting which could be used against high privilege users such as admin
Severity
6.1 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CWE
Assigner
References
URL Tags
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/c0a6c253-71f2-41… exploitvdb-entrytechnical-description
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Unknown Martins Free & Easy SEO BackLink Link Building Network Affected: 0 , < 1.2.30 (semver)
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Credits
Claudio Marchesini Enrico Marcolini WPScan
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