CVE-2023-6529 (GCVE-0-2023-6529)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2024-01-08 19:00
Modified
2025-06-18 16:50
Severity ?
6.1 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CWE
Summary
The WP VR WordPress plugin before 8.3.15 does not authorisation and CSRF in a function hooked to admin_init, allowing unauthenticated users to downgrade the plugin, thus leading to Reflected or Stored XSS, as previous versions have such vulnerabilities.
References
contact@wpscan.comhttps://wpscan.com/vulnerability/c36314c1-a2c0-4816-93c9-e61f9cf7f27aThird Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/c36314c1-a2c0-4816-93c9-e61f9cf7f27aThird Party Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Unknown WP VR Version: 0   ≤
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