MailPoet – emails and newsletters in WordPress <= 3.23.1 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting via URL parameter

6.1
Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
CVE CVE-2019-11843
CVSS 6.1 (Medium)
Publicly Published April 16, 2019
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researchers Jan van der Put
Harm Blankers

Description

The MailPoet plugin before 3.23.2 for WordPress allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML using extra parameters in the URL (Reflective Server-Side XSS).

Wordfence blocked 20,295,358 attacks targeting this vulnerability in the past 24 hours.

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Vulnerability Details for MailPoet – Newsletters, Email Marketing, and Automation

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug mailpoet (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Remediation Update to version 3.23.2, or a newer patched version
Affected Version
  • < 3.23.2
Patched Version
  • 3.23.2

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