The Postie WordPress plugin before 1.9.71 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).
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History

Mon, 29 Sep 2025 06:15:00 +0000

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Description The Postie WordPress plugin before 1.9.71 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).
Title Postie < 1.9.71 - Admin+ Stored XSS
References

cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: WPScan

Published:

Updated: 2025-09-29T06:00:10.942Z

Reserved: 2024-05-22T13:44:22.851Z

Link: CVE-2024-5200

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Received

Published: 2025-09-29T06:15:34.543

Modified: 2025-09-29T06:15:34.543

Link: CVE-2024-5200

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