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GHSA-7CM4-CX64-V496

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2024-01-29 15:30 – Updated: 2025-05-29 15:31

Details

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

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  "id": "GHSA-7cm4-cx64-v496",
  "modified": "2025-05-29T15:31:03Z",
  "published": "2024-01-29T15:30:29Z",
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    },
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CVE-2023-6165 (GCVE-0-2023-6165)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-01-29 14:44 – Updated: 2025-05-29 15:09

Title

Restrict Usernames Emails Characters Plugin < 3.1.4 - Admin+ Stored XSS

Summary

Severity ?

4.8 (Medium)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

CWE

CWE-79 Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)

Assigner

WPScan

References

URL

Tags

	https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/aba62286-9a82-4d…	exploitvdb-entrytechnical-description
	https://github.com/youki992/youki992.github.io/bl…

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	Unknown	Restrict Usernames Emails Characters	Affected: 0 , < 3.1.4 (semver)

Credits

Yuhang Liu WPScan

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Sightings

Author	Source	Type	Date	Other

Nomenclature

Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.

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GHSA-7CM4-CX64-V496

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

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