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ghsa-gr9g-7x3w-8vjj

Vulnerability from github

Published

2024-01-03 09:30

Modified

2024-01-09 21:30

Severity ?

6.1 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Details

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.

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  "affected": [],
  "aliases": [
    "CVE-2023-6621"
  ],
  "database_specific": {
    "cwe_ids": [
      "CWE-79"
    ],
    "github_reviewed": false,
    "github_reviewed_at": null,
    "nvd_published_at": "2024-01-03T09:15:11Z",
    "severity": "MODERATE"
  },
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  "id": "GHSA-gr9g-7x3w-8vjj",
  "modified": "2024-01-09T21:30:35Z",
  "published": "2024-01-03T09:30:33Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-6621"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/b49ca336-5bc2-4d72-a9a5-b8c020057928"
    }
  ],
  "schema_version": "1.4.0",
  "severity": [
    {
      "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N",
      "type": "CVSS_V3"
    }
  ]
}

CVE-2023-6621 (GCVE-0-2023-6621)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5

Published

2024-01-03 08:32

Modified

2025-06-18 15:36

Severity ?

6.1 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

CWE

CWE-79 Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)

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

URL

Tags

https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/b49ca336-5bc2-4d72-a9a5-b8c020057928

exploit, vdb-entry, technical-description

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	Unknown	POST SMTP	Version: 0 ≤

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