CVE-2023-2600 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

The Custom Base Terms WordPress plugin before 1.0.3 does not sanitize 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)

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.

Exploitation poc

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

Vendors	Products
Artprojectgroup	Custom Base Terms

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:artprojectgroup:custom_base_terms:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*

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References

Link	Providers
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/8e1d65c3-14e4-482f-ae9e-323e847a8613

History

Wed, 23 Apr 2025 17:15:00 +0000

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

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: WPScan

Published: 2023-06-19T10:52:47.286Z

Updated: 2025-04-23T16:20:53.437Z

Reserved: 2023-05-09T14:54:08.567Z

Link: CVE-2023-2600

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-02T06:26:09.802Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2023-06-19T11:15:10.327

Modified: 2025-04-23T17:16:30.140

Link: CVE-2023-2600

Redhat

No data.

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