Description
The Herd Effects WordPress plugin before 5.2.3 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)
Published: 2023-09-11
Score: 4.8 Medium
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2023-53915 The Herd Effects WordPress plugin before 5.2.3 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)
History

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

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{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'poc', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


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Wow-company Herd Effects
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: WPScan

Published:

Updated: 2025-04-23T16:16:56.932Z

Reserved: 2023-07-31T15:18:03.333Z

Link: CVE-2023-4022

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-02T07:17:11.833Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2023-09-11T20:15:11.240

Modified: 2025-04-23T17:16:40.940

Link: CVE-2023-4022

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