CVE-2023-2488 - CVE House
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Status published Unknown CVE-2023-2488

Stop Spammers Security < 2023 - Reflected XSS

Vulnerability Description

The Stop Spammers Security | Block Spam Users, Comments, Forms WordPress plugin before 2023 does not sanitise and escape various parameters before outputting them back in admin dashboard pages, leading to a Reflected Cross-Site Scripting which could be used against high privilege users such as admin

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

The following person or organization is credited with identifying this vulnerability, as recorded in the NVD database:

  • Erwan LR (WPScan)
  • WPScan

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Affected Vendor

Affected Software

Stop Spammers Security | Block Spam Users, Comments, Forms
Vulnerable Versions:
0

Timeline

Official Publish: June 5th, 2023
Last Modified: January 8th, 2025
Added to House: July 22nd, 2026

CVSS Vectors

No vector data available

Weaknesses (CWE)

No CWE data available

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.