CVE-2023-6165 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

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

Published: 2024-01-29

Score: 4.8 Medium

EPSS: < 1% Very Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

Unknown

Restrict Usernames Emails Characters

unaffected

Version	Status	Constraints
`0`	affected	< 3.1.4

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:benaceur-php:restrict_usernames_emails_characters:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*

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Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

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Tracking

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Advisories

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No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required High

Scope Changed

Confidentiality Impact Low

Integrity Impact Low

Availability Impact None

User Interaction Required

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00081.

Exploitation poc

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

References

Link	Providers
https://github.com/youki992/youki992.github.io/blob/master/others/apply2.md
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/aba62286-9a82-4d5b-9b47-1fddde5da487/

History

Thu, 29 May 2025 15:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'poc', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

Subscriptions

Benaceur-php Restrict Usernames Emails Characters

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: WPScan

Published: 2024-01-29T14:44:28.461Z

Updated: 2025-05-29T15:09:29.516Z

Reserved: 2023-11-15T18:47:04.309Z

Link: CVE-2023-6165

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-02T08:21:17.804Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2024-01-29T15:15:09.250

Modified: 2025-05-29T15:15:27.133

Link: CVE-2023-6165

Redhat

No data.

OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

CWE-79

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