User Submitted Posts – Enable Users to Submit Posts from the Front End, CVE-2023-4308

CVE, Research URL: CVE-2023-4308
Home page URL: Security reports for User Submitted Posts – Enable Users to Submit Posts from the Front End
Application: User Submitted Posts – Enable Users to Submit Posts from the Front End
Published on: Aug 15, 2023
Research Description: The User Submitted Posts plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the ‘user-submitted-content’ parameter in versions up to, and including, 20230809 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.
Affected versions: max 20230811.
Status: vulnerable