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Description

The MailPoet WordPress plugin before 5.5.2 does not sanitise and escape some of its settings, which could allow high privilege users such as admin to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed (for example in multisite setup).

PUBLISHED Reserved 2024-12-17 | Published 2025-05-15 | Updated 2025-05-20 | Assigner WPScan

Problem types

CWE-79 Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)

Product status

Default status
unaffected

Any version before 5.5.2
affected

Credits

Dmitrii Ingatyev finder

WPScan coordinator

References

wpscan.com/...rability/7945f52d-364d-438c-84f2-cf19b4250056/ exploit

wpscan.com/...rability/7945f52d-364d-438c-84f2-cf19b4250056/ exploit vdb-entry technical-description

cve.org (CVE-2024-12743)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2024-12743)

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