Medium severity6.4NVD Advisory· Published Oct 20, 2023· Updated Apr 8, 2026

CVE-2023-4961

Description

The Poptin plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'poptin-form' shortcode in versions up to, and including, 1.3 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers with contributor-level and above permissions to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

Affected products

Poptin/Popups
cpe:2.3:a:poptin:popups:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*
Range: <1.3.1

Patches

No patches discovered yet.

Vulnerability mechanics

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References

plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/2968210/poptinnvdPatch
www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/778af777-4c98-45cd-9704-1bdc96054aa7nvdPatchThird Party Advisory
plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/poptin/tags/1.3/poptin.phpnvdExploit

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