CVE-2023-4811 (GCVE-0-2023-4811)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2023-10-16 19:39
Modified
2025-04-23 16:11
Severity ?
5.4 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CWE
Summary
The WordPress File Upload WordPress plugin before 4.23.3 does not sanitise and escape some of its settings, which could allow high privilege users such as contributors to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks.
References
contact@wpscan.comhttps://wpscan.com/vulnerability/7f9271f2-4de4-4be3-8746-2a3f149eb1d1Exploit, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/7f9271f2-4de4-4be3-8746-2a3f149eb1d1Exploit, Third Party Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Unknown WordPress File Upload Version: 0   < 4.23.3
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