CVE-2023-3169

PoC —

CVSS 3.1

6.1 medium

EPSS

1%p69

Published

Sep 11, 2023 (Sep 11, 2023)

Modified

Jun 17, 2026

Description

The tagDiv Composer WordPress plugin before 4.2, used as a companion by the Newspaper and Newsmag themes from tagDiv, does not have authorisation in a REST route and does not validate as well as escape some parameters when outputting them back, which could allow unauthenticated users to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks.

Vendors: tagdiv
Products: tagdiv composer
Ecosystems: WordPress
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

NVD CVE.org GitHub PoCs EPSS (1.3%)

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