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CVE-2023-3356
Subscribers Text Counter < 1.7.1 - Settings Update via CSRF to Stored XSS
Medium4.3EPSS 0.25%
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- Updated
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- WPScan
Description
The Subscribers Text Counter WordPress plugin before 1.7.1 does not have CSRF check in place when updating its settings, which could allow attackers to make a logged in admin change them via a CSRF attack, which also lead to Stored Cross-Site Scripting due to the lack of sanitisation and escaping
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Medium4.3 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.25% · top 83% of all CVEs (7 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: poc · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.3.
Weakness
- CWE-79 Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
- CWE-352 Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
- CWE-352 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-352 and its CVEs
Affected products
Unknown · Subscribers Text Counter
- affected < 1.7.1
References (1)
- https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/93faad5b-e1e8-4e49-b19e-b91343d68b51 (opens in a new tab)exploitvdb-entrytechnical-descriptionx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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