CVE-2023-0824 (GCVE-0-2023-0824)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-01-16 15:56 – Updated: 2025-06-20 17:00
VLAI?
Title
UserPlus <= 2.0 - Stored XSS via CSRF
Summary
The User registration & user profile WordPress plugin through 2.0 does not have CSRF check in some places, and is missing sanitisation as well as escaping, which could allow attackers to make logged-in admin add Stored XSS payloads via a CSRF attack.
Severity ?
7.4 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:N
CWE
Assigner
References
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/48a3a542-9130-45… exploitvdb-entrytechnical-description
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Unknown User registration & user profile Affected: 0 , ≤ 2.0 (semver)
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Credits
Shreya Pohekar WPScan
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