CVE-2023-6629 (GCVE-0-2023-6629)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-01-03 04:29 – Updated: 2025-06-17 20:29
VLAI?
Summary
The POST SMTP Mailer – Email log, Delivery Failure Notifications and Best Mail SMTP for WordPress plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Reflected Cross-Site Scripting via the ‘msg’ parameter in all versions up to, and including, 2.8.6 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that execute if they can successfully trick a user into performing an action such as clicking on a link.
Severity ?
6.1 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CWE
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References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
wpexpertsio POST SMTP – The #1 WordPress SMTP Plugin with Advanced Email Logging and Delivery Failure Notifications Affected: * , ≤ 2.8.6 (semver)
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Credits
Matan Berson
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