CVE-2023-6165 (GCVE-0-2023-6165)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-01-29 14:44 – Updated: 2025-05-29 15:09
VLAI?
Title
Restrict Usernames Emails Characters Plugin < 3.1.4 - Admin+ Stored XSS
Summary
The Restrict Usernames Emails Characters WordPress plugin before 3.1.4 does not sanitise and escape some of its settings, which could allow high privilege users such as admin to perform Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when unfiltered_html is disallowed
Severity ?
4.8 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CWE
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Unknown Restrict Usernames Emails Characters Affected: 0 , < 3.1.4 (semver)
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Credits
Yuhang Liu WPScan
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