FKIE_CVE-2023-4284

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2023-09-04 12:15 - Updated: 2026-06-17 06:37
Severity
6.1 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Summary
The Post Timeline WordPress plugin before 2.2.6 does not sanitise and escape an invalid nonce before outputting it back in an AJAX response, leading to a Reflected Cross-Site Scripting which could be used against high privilege users such as admin
References
contact@wpscan.comhttps://wpscan.com/vulnerability/1c126869-0afa-456f-94cc-10334964e5f9Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/1c126869-0afa-456f-94cc-10334964e5f9Third Party Advisory
134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/1c126869-0afa-456f-94cc-10334964e5f9Third Party Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
agilelogix post_timeline *
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  "lastModified": "2026-06-17T06:37:28.770",
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