CVE-2023-0824 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

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.

Published: 2024-01-16

Score: 7.4 High

EPSS: < 1% Very Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

Unknown

User registration & user profile

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`0`	affected	≤ 2.0

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:wpuserplus:userplus:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*

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Remediation

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Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2023-12827	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.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Changed

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact High

Availability Impact None

User Interaction Required

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00162.

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

References

Link	Providers
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/48a3a542-9130-4524-9d19-ff9eccecb148/

History

Fri, 20 Jun 2025 17:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics	cvssV3_1 `{'score': 6.5, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N'}`	ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}` cvssV3_1 `{'score': 7.4, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:N'}`

Subscriptions

Wpuserplus Userplus

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: WPScan

Published: 2024-01-16T15:56:28.126Z

Updated: 2025-06-20T17:00:42.429Z

Reserved: 2023-02-14T10:13:45.442Z

Link: CVE-2023-0824

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-02T05:24:34.427Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2024-01-16T16:15:10.670

Modified: 2025-06-20T17:15:29.880

Link: CVE-2023-0824

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

CWE-352

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