Name: CVE-2023-2488: Undefined Security Weakness
Creator: Rapid7
Published: 2023-06-05T00:00:00.000Z
License: https://www.rapid7.com/legal/website-terms-of-use/
Keywords: CVE, CVE-2023-2488, CWE-79, CVSS 6.1, EPSS 0.00522

The Stop Spammers Security | Block Spam Users, Comments, Forms WordPress plugin before 2023 does not sanitise and escape various parameters before outputting them back in admin dashboard pages, leading to a Reflected Cross-Site Scripting which could be used against high privilege users such as admin

CVSS Details

CVSS 3.1 Base Score: 6.1
CVSS 3.1 Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N)

Covered by Rapid7

Product	Vendor Advisory	Solution File	Added	Published
Stop Spammer Registrations Plugin Plugin	—	Update stop-spammer-registrations-plugin plugin to version 2023, or a newer patched version	May 15, 2025	May 15, 2023

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CVSS Details

Covered by Rapid7

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