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About Me 3000 widget <= 2.2.6 - Authenticated (Administrator+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting

Published Jul 12, 2023

Description

The About Me 3000 widget plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via admin settings in versions up to, and including, 2.2.6 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with administrator-level permissions and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page. This only affects multi-site installations and installations where unfiltered_html has been disabled.

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Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

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Change history (0)

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Sources
CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner Wordfence
Published Jul 12, 2023
Updated Apr 8, 2026
Reserved Jun 22, 2023
CISA Vulnrichment
Updated Feb 5, 2025
NVD
Status Modified
Modified Jun 17, 2026
Red Hat
Severity n/a
Public date n/a
ENISA EUVD
Assigner Wordfence
Published Jul 12, 2023
Updated Apr 8, 2026
Exploited since n/a
EUVD-2023-44036