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CVE-2023-2489

MEDIUM 4.8 CVSS 3.1
Published
June 5, 2023
Last modified
June 17, 2026
NVD status
Modified
Reported by
contact@wpscan.com
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Description

The Stop Spammers Security | Block Spam Users, Comments, Forms WordPress plugin before 2023 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)

Affected products and versions

  • Unknown Stop Spammers Security | Block Spam Users, Comments, Forms — Before 2023
  • trumani stop_spammers — Before 2023

References

  • wpscan.com https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/dcbe3334-357a-4744-b50c-309d10cca30d Exploit, Third Party Advisory
  • nvd.nist.gov Official NVD record