MEDIUM
Herd Effects < 5.2.3 - Admin+ Stored XSS
Published Sep 11, 2023
4.8
MEDIUMCVSS 3.1
EPSS 0.47%
Description
The Herd Effects WordPress plugin before 5.2.3 does not sanitise and escape some of its settings, which could allow high privilege users such as admin to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed (for example in multisite setup)
Affected products
- Vendor n/a Product Herd Effects Defaultunaffected
Affected
- ≥ 0, < 5.2.3
Default status is the baseline for the product. Each version can override it (patched versions can be marked unaffected).
| Vendor | Product | Default status | Versions |
|---|---|---|---|
| n/a | Herd Effects | unaffected | Affected
|
- < 5.2.3
No data.
No Red Hat product state for this CVE.
No package ranges for this CVE.
Remediation
No remediation recorded yet.
Weaknesses (0)
No CWE recorded.
References (2)
- https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2023-53915 Advisory
- https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/c4ac0b19-58b1-4620-b3b7-fbe6dd6c8dd5 exploitvdb-entrytechnical-descriptionThird Party Advisory
| Link | Providers | Tags |
|---|---|---|
| https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2023-53915 | Advisory | |
| https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/c4ac0b19-58b1-4620-b3b7-fbe6dd6c8dd5 | exploitvdb-entrytechnical-descriptionThird Party Advisory |
Change history (0)
No recorded changes yet.
Sources
CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner WPScan
Published Sep 11, 2023
Updated Apr 23, 2025
Reserved Jul 31, 2023
Link CVE-2023-4022
CISA Vulnrichment
Updated Apr 23, 2025
Red Hat
No data
GitHub
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