CVE-2023-4961
Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-79
Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
Publication date:
20/10/2023
Last modified:
08/04/2026
Description
The Poptin plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'poptin-form' shortcode in versions up to, and including, 1.3 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers with contributor-level and above permissions to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.
Impact
Base Score 3.x
6.40
Severity 3.x
MEDIUM
Vulnerable products and versions
| CPE | From | Up to |
|---|---|---|
| cpe:2.3:a:poptin:popups:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:* | 1.3.1 (excluding) |
To consult the complete list of CPE names with products and versions, see this page
References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/poptin/tags/1.3/poptin.php#L659
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/2968210/poptin#file2
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/778af777-4c98-45cd-9704-1bdc96054aa7?source=cve
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/poptin/tags/1.3/poptin.php#L659
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/2968210/poptin#file2
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/778af777-4c98-45cd-9704-1bdc96054aa7?source=cve



