CVE-2023-2488

Summary

CVE-2023-2488 is a Reflected Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability affecting the Stop Spammers Security | Block Spam Users, Comments, Forms plugin for WordPress. The issue lies in the plugin's failure to properly sanitize and escape certain parameters before rendering them on admin dashboard pages. Malicious actors can exploit this flaw to inject and execute malicious scripts, potentially gaining unauthorized access to sensitive information or taking control of high privilege user accounts, such as admin. Users are urged to update their plugin to the latest version as soon as possible to mitigate this risk.

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