Name: CVE-2023-3356: Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
Creator: Rapid7
Published: 2023-08-30T00:00:00.000Z
License: https://www.rapid7.com/legal/website-terms-of-use/
Keywords: CVE, CVE-2023-3356, CWE-352, CVSS 4.3, EPSS 0.00252

The Subscribers Text Counter WordPress plugin before 1.7.1 does not have CSRF check in place when updating its settings, which could allow attackers to make a logged in admin change them via a CSRF attack, which also lead to Stored Cross-Site Scripting due to the lack of sanitisation and escaping

CVSS Details

CVSS 3.1 Base Score: 4.3
CVSS 3.1 Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N)

Covered by Rapid7

Product	Vendor Advisory	Solution File	Added	Published
Subscribers Text Counter Plugin	—	Update subscribers-text-counter plugin to version 1.7.1, or a newer patched version	May 15, 2025	Aug 4, 2023

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CVSS Details

Covered by Rapid7

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