CVE-2023-5167 (GCVE-0-2023-5167)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-10-16 19:39 – Updated: 2025-04-23 16:13
VLAI?
Summary
The User Activity Log Pro WordPress plugin before 2.3.4 does not properly escape recorded User-Agents in the user activity logs dashboard, which may allow visitors to conduct Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks.
Severity ?
5.4 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CWE
Assigner
References
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/78ea6fe0-5fac-49… exploitvdb-entrytechnical-description
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Unknown user-activity-log-pro Affected: 0 , < 2.3.4 (custom)
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Credits
Bartlomiej Marek and Tomasz Swiadek WPScan
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