CVE-2023-3158 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

The Mail Control plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via an email subject in versions up to, and including, 0.2.8 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

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 None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.0071.

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

Vendors	Products
Instareza	Mail Control

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:instareza:mail_control:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2023-43842	The Mail Control plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via an email subject in versions up to, and including, 0.2.8 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.

Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

References

Link	Providers
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/mail-control/trunk/includes/admin.php#L42
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/77537eb8-1c84-4702-aba1-727b0de1c3e1?source=cve

History

Tue, 15 Oct 2024 02:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: Wordfence

Published: 2023-07-12T04:38:46.096Z

Updated: 2024-10-15T01:36:44.218Z

Reserved: 2023-06-08T00:54:34.360Z

Link: CVE-2023-3158

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-02T06:48:07.928Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2023-07-12T05:15:10.277

Modified: 2024-11-21T08:16:35.223

Link: CVE-2023-3158

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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