cve-2023-6591
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2024-02-12 16:06
Modified
2024-10-28 00:08
Severity ?
4.8 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Summary
The Popup Box WordPress plugin before 20.9.0 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
References
contact@wpscan.comhttps://wpscan.com/vulnerability/f296de1c-b70b-4829-aba7-4afa24f64c51/Exploit, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/f296de1c-b70b-4829-aba7-4afa24f64c51/Exploit, Third Party Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Unknown Popup Box Version: 20.8.7   ≤
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