CVE-2023-2488

2023-06-0514:15:10

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cve-2023-2488

stop spammers security

wordpress

plugin

xss

security vulnerability

6.1 Medium

CVSS3

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction

REQUIRED

Scope

CHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

LOW

Integrity Impact

LOW

Availability Impact

NONE

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

0.001 Low

EPSS

Percentile

25.0%

JSON

The Stop Spammers Security | Block Spam Users, Comments, Forms WordPress plugin before 2023 does not sanitise and escape various parameters before outputting them back in admin dashboard pages, leading to a Reflected Cross-Site Scripting which could be used against high privilege users such as admin

Affected configurations

Vulners

NVD

Node

stopbadbotsblock_and_stop_bad_botsRange<2023

VendorProductVersionCPE
stopbadbotsblock_and_stop_bad_bots*cpe:2.3:a:stopbadbots:block_and_stop_bad_bots:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Vendor	Product	Version	CPE
stopbadbots	block_and_stop_bad_bots	*	cpe:2.3:a:stopbadbots:block_and_stop_bad_bots::::::::

CNA Affected

[
  {
    "vendor": "Unknown",
    "product": "Stop Spammers Security | Block Spam Users, Comments, Forms",
    "versions": [
      {
        "status": "affected",
        "versionType": "custom",
        "version": "0",
        "lessThan": "2023"
      }
    ],
    "defaultStatus": "unaffected",
    "collectionURL": "https://wordpress.org/plugins"
  }
]