WordPress Plugin Vulnerabilities

Newsletter < 7.9.0 - Contributor+ Stored XSS

Description

The plugin does not validate and escape some of its newsletter_form shortcode attributes before outputting them back in a page/post where the shortcode is embed, which could allow users with the contributor role and above to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks

Affects Plugins

Plugin icon
newsletter
Fixed in 7.9.0

References

CVE
CVE-2023-4772

Classification

Type
XSS
OWASP top 10
A7: Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
CWE
CWE-79
CVSS
6.8 (medium)

Miscellaneous

Original Researcher
Lana Codes
Verified
Yes
WPVDB ID
48f952f7-1fdc-4aca-b598-56ede7007f13

Timeline

Publicly Published
2023-09-06 (about 2 years ago)
Added
2023-09-06 (about 2 years ago)
Last Updated
2023-09-06 (about 2 years ago)

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