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CVE-2023-6165

Published: Jan 29, 2024

Modified: May 29, 2025

PUBLISHED

Description

The Restrict Usernames Emails Characters WordPress plugin before 3.1.4 does not sanitise and escape some of its settings, which could allow high privilege users such as admin to perform Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when unfiltered_html is disallowed

Vendor	Product	Versions
Unknown	Restrict Usernames Emails Characters	affected `0 - < 3.1.4`

References

https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/aba62286-9a82-4d5b-9b47-1fddde5da487/

exploit

vdb-entry

technical-description

https://github.com/youki992/youki992.github.io/blob/master/others/apply2.md

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