CVE-2023-2489

2023-06-0514:15:10

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plugin

vulnerability

wordpress

xss

security

nvd

cve-2023-2489

4.8 Medium

CVSS3

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

HIGH

User Interaction

REQUIRED

Scope

CHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

LOW

Integrity Impact

LOW

Availability Impact

NONE

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

0.001 Low

EPSS

Percentile

23.6%

JSON

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)

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"
  }
]