CVE-2023-3936 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

The Blog2Social WordPress plugin before 7.2.1 does not sanitise and escape a parameter before outputting it back in the page, leading to a Reflected Cross-Site Scripting which could be used against high privilege users such as admin

Published: 2023-08-21

Score: 6.1 Medium

EPSS: 9.7% 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

Blog2Social: Social Media Auto Post & Scheduler

unaffected

Version	Status	Constraints
`7.1.0`	affected	< 7.2.1

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:adenion:blog2social:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*

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Remediation

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2023-44562	The Blog2Social WordPress plugin before 7.2.1 does not sanitise and escape a parameter before outputting it back in the page, 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 0.09688.

Exploitation poc

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

References

Link	Providers
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/6d09a5d3-046d-47ef-86b4-c024ea09dc0f

History

Wed, 23 Apr 2025 17:15:00 +0000

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

Subscriptions

Adenion Blog2social

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: WPScan

Published: 2023-08-21T12:29:49.665Z

Updated: 2025-04-23T16:19:26.930Z

Reserved: 2023-07-25T13:13:43.226Z

Link: CVE-2023-3936

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-02T07:08:50.615Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2023-08-21T17:15:49.967

Modified: 2025-04-23T17:16:38.920

Link: CVE-2023-3936

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

No weakness.

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