CVE-2023-2488 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

The Stop Spammers Security | Block Spam Users, Comments, Forms WordPress plugin before 2023 does not sanitise and escape various parameters before outputting them back in admin dashboard pages, leading to a Reflected Cross-Site Scripting which could be used against high privilege users such as admin

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Changed

Confidentiality Impact Low

Integrity Impact Low

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 0.00348.

Exploitation poc

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

Vendors	Products
Trumani	Stop Spammers

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:trumani:stop_spammers:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*

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Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.

Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

References

Link	Providers
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/60226669-0b7b-441f-93d4-b5933e69478f

History

Wed, 08 Jan 2025 17:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'poc', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: WPScan

Published: 2023-06-05T13:38:59.394Z

Updated: 2025-01-08T17:00:43.842Z

Reserved: 2023-05-03T08:02:49.516Z

Link: CVE-2023-2488

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-02T06:26:08.801Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2023-06-05T14:15:10.173

Modified: 2025-01-08T17:15:11.237

Link: CVE-2023-2488

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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