CVE-2023-2489

Stop Spammers Security < 2023 - Admin+ Stored XSS

The Stop Spammers Security | Block Spam Users, Comments, Forms WordPress plugin before 2023 does not sanitise and escape some of its settings, which could allow high privilege users such as admin to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed (for example in multisite setup)

Affected

Stop Spammers Security | Block Spam Users, Comments, Forms

CVSS v3.1 NVD

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

EPSS

0.44% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, 37th percentile

Published

2023-06-05

Updated

2025-01-08

Proof-of-concept exploits (1)

• https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/dcbe3334-357a-4744-b50c-309d10cca30d

References

• CVE Record
• NVD entry