CVE-2023-6591 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

The Popup Box WordPress plugin before 20.9.0 does not sanitise and escape some of its settings, which could allow high privilege users such as admin to perform Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when unfiltered_html is disallowed

Published: 2024-02-12

Score: 4.8 Medium

EPSS: < 1% Very Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

No analysis available yet.

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

Popup Box

unaffected

Version	Status	Constraints
`20.8.7`	affected	< 20.9.0

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:ays-pro:popup_box:*:*:*:*:pro:wordpress:*:*

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Remediation

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Tracking

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Advisories

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No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required High

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 0.00228.

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

References

Link	Providers
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/f296de1c-b70b-4829-aba7-4afa24f64c51/

History

Wed, 09 Oct 2024 16:00:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
First Time appeared		Ays-pro Ays-pro popup Box
Weaknesses		CWE-79
CPEs		cpe:2.3:a:ays-pro:popup_box:::::pro:wordpress::
Vendors & Products		Ays-pro Ays-pro popup Box
Metrics		cvssV3_1 `{'score': 4.8, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N'}`

Subscriptions

Ays-pro Popup Box

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: WPScan

Published: 2024-02-12T16:06:00.145Z

Updated: 2024-10-28T00:08:28.341Z

Reserved: 2023-12-07T18:13:46.703Z

Link: CVE-2023-6591

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-02T08:35:14.411Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2024-02-12T16:15:08.337

Modified: 2024-11-21T08:44:09.657

Link: CVE-2023-6591

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

CWE-79

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