CVE Catalog

CVE-2023-4308

HighCVSS 7.2
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.36%

28th percentile - higher than 28% of all known CVEs

Summary

The User Submitted Posts plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) via the 'user-submitted-content' parameter in versions up to and including 20230809 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 plugin to the latest version to mitigate this vulnerability and implement additional security measures such as input data filtering.

Related vulnerabilities

Original NVD description (English source)

The User Submitted Posts plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the ‘user-submitted-content’ parameter in versions up to, and including, 20230809 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