cve-2023-6621
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2024-01-03 08:32
Modified
2024-08-02 08:35
Severity ?
Summary
The POST SMTP WordPress plugin before 2.8.7 does not sanitise and escape the msg 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.
References
contact@wpscan.comhttps://wpscan.com/vulnerability/b49ca336-5bc2-4d72-a9a5-b8c020057928Exploit, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/b49ca336-5bc2-4d72-a9a5-b8c020057928Exploit, Third Party Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Unknown POST SMTP Version: 0   ≤
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