CVE detail
CVE-2023-7027
The POST SMTP Mailer – Email log, Delivery Failure Notifications and Best Mail SMTP for WordPress plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the ‘device’ header in all versions up to, and including, 2.8.7 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.
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Buzz score components · mention 11.0 · diversity 5.0 · KEV 0.0 · OTX 0.0 · PoC 0.0
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Evidence
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- Wordfence Intelligence Weekly WordPress Vulnerability Report (January 1, 2024 to January 7, 2024)Wordfence
🎉Wordfence just launched its bug bounty program. For the first 6 months, all awarded bounties receive a 10% bonus. View the announcement to learn more now! Last week, there were 85 vulnerabilities disclosed in 74 WordPress Plugins and 2 WordPress themes that have been added to the Wordfence Intelligence Vulnerability Database, and there were 39 … Read More
vendorwww.wordfence.comJan 11, 2024, 4:24 PM On December 14th, 2023, during our Bug Bounty Program Holiday Bug Extravaganza, we received a submission for an Authorization Bypass vulnerability in POST SMTP Mailer, a WordPress plugin with over 300,000+ active installations. This vulnerability makes it possible for unauthenticated threat actors to reset the API key used to authenticate to the mailer and view … Read More
vendorwww.wordfence.comJan 10, 2024, 4:01 PM
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