CVE Catalog

CVE-2023-3158

HighCVSS 7.2
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.53%

40th percentile - higher than 40% of all known CVEs

Summary

The Mail Control plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) via an email subject in versions up to and including 0.2.8 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping.

Risk Assessment

Unauthenticated attackers can inject arbitrary web scripts that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page, potentially leading to data theft or account takeover.

Recommendation

It is recommended to update the Mail Control plugin to the latest version to mitigate this vulnerability and to review and sanitize input data in the application.

Related vulnerabilities

Original NVD description (English source)

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.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS