{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 1 product.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-6495 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"No fix has been published for CVE-2023-6495 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.","what":"CVE-2023-6495 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in jeffparker YARPP – Yet Another Related Posts Plugin, published on 19 Jun 2024. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, with no action from the victim."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2023-6495 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2023-6495 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in jeffparker YARPP – Yet Another Related Posts Plugin, published on 19 Jun 2024. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, with no action from the victim.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-6495 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected product: jeffparker YARPP – Yet Another Related Posts Plugin. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-6495/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-6495/index.md)","id":"CVE-2023-6495","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-6495/index.md","name":"CVE-2023-6495","record":{"aliases":["GHSA-x3hx-c98x-qrjf"],"analysis":{"component_type":"cms_plugin","fix_type":"upgrade","impacts":["code_execution"],"network_reachable":"yes","non_default_config":true,"product_category":"WordPress plugin","requires_auth":"high_privilege","summary":"Administrators can inject scripts via settings in multi-site or restricted HTML environments, leading to script execution for other users.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"xss"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"Wordfence","cpe":[{"product":"yet_another_related_posts_plugin","vendor":"yarpp"}],"cvss":{"score":4.4,"severity":"medium","source":"cna","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N","version":"3.1"},"cwes":[{"id":"CWE-79","name":"Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation"}],"description":"The YARPP – Yet Another Related Posts Plugin plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via admin settings in all versions up to and including 5.30.9 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with administrator-level permissions and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page. This only affects multi-site installations and installations where unfiltered_html has been disabled.","ecosystems":[],"exploits":{"exploitdb":0,"first_seen":null,"github_poc":0,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":0,"nuclei":0,"refs":[],"tier":"none_known"},"has_fix":null,"headline":"YARPP – Yet Another Related Posts Plugin \u003c= 5.30.9 - Authenticated(Administrator+) Cross-Site Scripting","id":"CVE-2023-6495","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":null,"products":[],"type":"xss","year":"2023"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":2,"next":{"headline":"Manage Notification E-mails \u003c= 1.8.5 - Missing Authorization","id":"CVE-2023-6496"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"WPC Smart Quick View for WooCommerce \u003c= 4.0.2 - Authenticated (Administrator+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting","id":"CVE-2023-6494"},"products":["YARPP – Yet Another Related Posts Plugin"],"published":"2024-06-19","related":[{"cvss_score":8.8,"headline":"YARPP - Yet Another Related Posts Plugin \u003c 5.30.3 - Subscriber+ SQLi","id":"CVE-2023-0579","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2023-08-16"},{"cvss_score":7.7,"headline":"WordPress Yet Another Related Posts Plugin (YARPP) plugin \u003c= 5.30.4 - Local File Inclusion","id":"CVE-2022-45374","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2024-05-17"},{"cvss_score":6.8,"headline":"YARPP - Yet Another Related Posts Plugin \u003c 5.30.3 - Contributor+ Stored XSS","id":"CVE-2022-4471","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2023-02-13"},{"cvss_score":6.4,"headline":"YARPP – Yet Another Related Posts Plugin \u003c= 5.30.3 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting","id":"CVE-2023-2433","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2023-07-18"},{"cvss_score":5.3,"headline":"WordPress Yet Another Related Posts Plugin (YARPP) plugin \u003c= 5.30.10 - Broken Access Control vulnerability","id":"CVE-2024-43919","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2024-11-01"},{"cvss_score":4.4,"headline":"Cross-site scripting in YARPP – Yet Another Related Posts Plugin","id":"CVE-2024-0602","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2024-02-20"}],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"US public information, NVD API terms","name":"NVD"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CWE Terms of Use","name":"CWE (MITRE)"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":"no","exploitation":"none","technical_impact":"partial"},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2026-04-08","vendors":["jeffparker"]},"summary":"Administrators can inject scripts via settings in multi-site or restricted HTML environments, leading to script execution for other users.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-6495/"}