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CVE-2023-6290:
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation
Overview
CVE-2023-6290 is a security vulnerability affecting the SEOPress WordPress plugin versions before 7.3. The vulnerability was discovered and publicly disclosed on December 26, 2023. The issue affects the plugin's settings functionality where certain configuration options are not properly sanitized and escaped (WPScan, NVD).
Technical details
The vulnerability stems from improper sanitization and escaping of plugin settings, which could allow high privilege users such as administrators to perform Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) attacks even when unfiltered_html is disallowed. The vulnerability has been classified as XSS type and received a CVSS score of 3.5 (low) (WPScan).
Impact
The vulnerability allows high-privilege users such as administrators to perform Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) attacks on the website. This could potentially lead to the execution of malicious JavaScript code in users' browsers when viewing affected pages (WPScan).
Mitigation and workarounds
The vulnerability has been fixed in SEOPress version 7.3. Users are advised to update to this version or later to mitigate the security risk (WPScan).
Additional resources
Source: This report was generated using AI
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