MailPoet: Cross-site scripting
MailPoet is affected by cross-site scripting. Exposure depends on how the affected operation is made reachable by the site. Injected script can execute in the affected site's origin when the vulnerable output is viewed.
- Component
- MailPoet
- Plugin slug
mailpoet- Affected
- See vendor advisory
- Safe version
- See mitigation notes
- Published
- May 15, 2025
This CVE was published May 15, 2025 and is one of 4 known issues for this plugin.
Patch or disable the affected component.
Update MailPoet to a release outside the affected range, or disable and remove it until a fixed version is available.
Technical description
The MailPoet WordPress plugin before 5.5.2 does not sanitise and escape some of its 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).
CVE / CNA vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N