Description
The Newsletter WordPress plugin before 8.85 does not sanitise and escape some of its Form settings, which could allow high privilege users such as admin to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed (for example in multisite setup).
Published: 2025-06-09
Score: 4.8 Medium
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Remediation

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Advisories
Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2025-17434 The Newsletter WordPress plugin before 8.85 does not sanitise and escape some of its Form settings, which could allow high privilege users such as admin to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed (for example in multisite setup).
History

Fri, 11 Jul 2025 13:45:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Metrics epss

{'score': 0.00027}

 epss

{'score': 0.0003}

Thu, 12 Jun 2025 16:45:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
First Time appeared Thenewsletterplugin
Thenewsletterplugin newsletter
Weaknesses CWE-79
CPEs cpe:2.3:a:thenewsletterplugin:newsletter:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*
Vendors & Products Thenewsletterplugin
Thenewsletterplugin newsletter

Tue, 10 Jun 2025 16:15:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 4.8, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N'}

ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'poc', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}

Mon, 09 Jun 2025 06:15:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Description The Newsletter WordPress plugin before 8.85 does not sanitise and escape some of its Form settings, which could allow high privilege users such as admin to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed (for example in multisite setup).
Title Newsletter < 8.8.5 - Admin+ Stored XSS via Form
References

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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: WPScan

Published:

Updated: 2025-06-10T15:14:20.966Z

Reserved: 2025-04-14T11:47:34.442Z

Link: CVE-2025-3582

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2025-06-10T15:14:17.635Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2025-06-09T06:15:25.200

Modified: 2025-06-12T16:22:44.097

Link: CVE-2025-3582

cve-icon Redhat

No data.

cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses