Email Subscription Popup Plugin up to 1.2.19 on WordPress cross site scripting

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A vulnerability was found in Email Subscription Popup Plugin up to 1.2.19 on WordPress. It has been rated as problematic. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality. The manipulation leads to cross site scripting. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2023-6555. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. There is no exploit available. Upgrading the affected component is advised.

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A vulnerability was found in Email Subscription Popup Plugin up to 1.2.19 on WordPress (WordPress Plugin). It has been rated as problematic. This issue affects an unknown function. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a cross site scripting vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-79. The product does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes user-controllable input before it is placed in output that is used as a web page that is served to other users. Impacted is integrity. The summary by CVE is:

The Email Subscription Popup WordPress plugin before 1.2.20 does not sanitise and escape a parameter before outputting it back in the page, leading to a Reflected Cross-Site Scripting which could be used against high privilege users such as admin

The weakness was shared 01/08/2024 by Erwan Lr. It is possible to read the advisory at wpscan.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2023-6555 since 12/06/2023. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1059.007 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

Upgrading to version 1.2.20 eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at EUVD (EUVD-2023-58784). Statistical analysis made it clear that VulDB provides the best quality for vulnerability data.

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• WordPress Plugin

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• Email Subscription Popup Plugin

Version

• 1.2.0
• 1.2.1
• 1.2.2
• 1.2.3
• 1.2.4
• 1.2.5
• 1.2.6
• 1.2.7
• 1.2.8
• 1.2.9
• 1.2.10
• 1.2.11
• 1.2.12
• 1.2.13
• 1.2.14
• 1.2.15
• 1.2.16
• 1.2.17
• 1.2.18
• 1.2.19

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