CVE-2023-4970 (GCVE-0-2023-4970)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-11-20 18:55 – Updated: 2024-08-02 07:44
VLAI
Title
PubyDoc <= 2.0.6 - Admin+ Stored XSS
Summary
The PubyDoc WordPress plugin through 2.0.6 does not sanitise and escape some of its settings, which could allow high privilege users such as admin to perform Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when unfiltered_html is disallowed
Severity
4.8 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CWE
Assigner
References
URL Tags
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/845bbfdd-fe9f-48… exploitvdb-entrytechnical-description
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Unknown PubyDoc Affected: 0 , ≤ 2.0.6 (semver)
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Credits
Vaishnav Rajeevan WPScan
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