5.4 Medium
CVSS3
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
CHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
LOW
Integrity Impact
LOW
Availability Impact
NONE
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
0.001 Low
EPSS
Percentile
23.3%
The WordPress plugin
# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2023 Greenbone AG
# Some text descriptions might be excerpted from (a) referenced
# source(s), and are Copyright (C) by the respective right holder(s).
#
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
CPE = "cpe:/a:wpmanageninja:fluentsmtp";
if (description)
{
script_oid("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.124298");
script_version("2023-10-13T16:09:03+0000");
script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2023-10-13 16:09:03 +0000 (Fri, 13 Oct 2023)");
script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2023-03-27 08:29:25 +0000 (Mon, 27 Mar 2023)");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"5.5");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:N");
script_tag(name:"severity_vector", value:"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N");
script_tag(name:"severity_origin", value:"NVD");
script_tag(name:"severity_date", value:"2023-03-16 15:53:00 +0000 (Thu, 16 Mar 2023)");
script_cve_id("CVE-2023-0219");
script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"remote_banner");
script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"VendorFix");
script_name("WordPress FluentSMTP Plugin < 2.2.3 XSS Vulnerability");
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2023 Greenbone AG");
script_family("Web application abuses");
script_dependencies("gb_wordpress_plugin_http_detect.nasl");
script_mandatory_keys("wordpress/plugin/fluent-smtp/detected");
script_tag(name:"summary", value:"The WordPress plugin 'FluentSMTP' is prone to a cross-site
scripting (XSS) vulnerability.");
script_tag(name:"vuldetect", value:"Checks if a vulnerable version is present on the target host.");
script_tag(name:"insight", value:"The plugin does not sanitize or escape email content, making it
vulnerable to stored cross-site scripting attacks (XSS) when an administrator views the email
logs. This exploit requires other plugins to enable users to send emails with unfiltered HTML.");
script_tag(name:"affected", value:"WordPress FluentSMTP plugin prior to version 2.2.3.");
script_tag(name:"solution", value:"Update to version 2.2.3 or later.");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/71662b72-311c-42db-86c5-a0276d25535c");
exit(0);
}
include("host_details.inc");
include("version_func.inc");
if( ! port = get_app_port( cpe:CPE ) )
exit( 0 );
if( ! infos = get_app_version_and_location( cpe:CPE, port:port, exit_no_version:TRUE ) )
exit( 0 );
version = infos["version"];
location = infos["location"];
if( version_is_less( version:version, test_version:"2.2.3" ) ) {
report = report_fixed_ver( installed_version:version, fixed_version:"2.2.3", install_path:location );
security_message( port:port, data:report );
exit( 0 );
}
exit( 99 );