CVE-2023-2489
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…
Does this matter?
Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.44%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.
Description
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)
- CVSS 3.1
- 4.8 MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
- EPSS
- 0.44% probability · 37th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Affected
- trumani/stop spammers
- Source
- contact@wpscan.com
References
- https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/dcbe3334-357a-4744-b50c-309d10cca30dExploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/dcbe3334-357a-4744-b50c-309d10cca30dExploit, Third Party Advisory
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.