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1 vulnerability found for Mail logging – WP Mail Catcher by wardee

CVE-2023-3080 (GCVE-0-2023-3080)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2023-07-12 04:38
Modified
2026-04-08 16:36
CWE
  • CWE-79 - Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
Summary
The WP Mail Catcher plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via an email subject in versions up to, and including, 2.1.2 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.
Impacted products
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