CVE-2023-6290 WP SEO Press < 7.3 - Admin+ Stored XSS
High-privilege users can inject malicious scripts via unsanitized settings in the SEOPress WordPress plugin, potentially compromising admin sessions.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- An administrator
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- A user has to click or open something
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2023-6290?
CVE-2023-6290 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in Unknown SEOPress, published on 22 Jan 2024. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Official description
The SEOPress WordPress plugin before 7.3 does not sanitise and escape some of its settings, which could allow high privilege users such as admin to perform Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when unfiltered_html is disallowed
Weakness: CWE-79
Which versions are affected by CVE-2023-6290?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Seopress Seopress.
How do I fix CVE-2023-6290?
No fix has been published for CVE-2023-6290 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Escape output for the context it lands in and set a strict Content Security Policy. Upgrading the affected component is the real fix. More about Cross-site scripting.
Is CVE-2023-6290 being exploited?
It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2023-6290 exists.
Other vulnerabilities in Unknown SEOPress
- CVE-2024-5488 SEOPress < 7.9 - Unauthenticated Object Injection
- CVE-2023-1669 SEOPress < 6.5.0.3 - Admin+ PHP Object Injection
- CVE-2024-1168 SEOPress – On-site SEO <= 7.9 - Authenticated(Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Social Image URL
- CVE-2024-1134 SEOPress – On-site SEO <= 7.5.2.1 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting
- CVE-2024-2165 SEOPress – On-site SEO <= 7.5.2.1 - Authenticated (Author+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting
Sources
Also known as GHSA-c9r5-885j-jmm2.