Where
-Infinity
0
Severity
9.8
AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

The MailOptin – Popup, Optin Forms & Email Newsletters for Mailchimp, HubSpot, AWeber Etc. plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Privilege Escalation in all versions up to, and including, 1.2.78.6 This is due to the subscribetoemaillist endpoint accepting an attacker-supplied optindata[formcustomfieldmappings] parameter without any allow-list validation on destination keys, allowing the attacker-controlled mapping to override the administrator's saved mapping and pass arbitrary wpusers column names — including ID and userpass — directly into wpinsertuser() via the subscribe() function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to force wpinsertuser() into UPDATE mode on any existing account by supplying a target user's numeric ID, overwrite that account's password with a pre-hashed value of their choosing, and thereby take over any WordPress user account — including administrators — leading to full site compromise. Exploitation requires that a WordPress User Registration opt-in form is published somewhere on the site, though the form's UUID is visible in page source and no authentication, nonce, or capability check is required to reach the vulnerable endpoint.

First published (updated )
Severity
5.9
XSS
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Auth. (admin+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in MailOptin Popup Builder Team MailOptin plugin <= 1.2.54.0 versions.

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Remedy

Update to 1.2.54.1 or a higher version.
First published (updated )
Severity
6.5
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

Unauthenticated Optin Campaign Cache Deletion vulnerability in MailOptin plugin <= 1.2.49.0 at WordPress.

Remedy

Update to 1.2.50.0 or higher version.
First published (updated )
Severity
5.4
EPSS
0.04%
XSS
AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

The Popup, Optin Form & Email Newsletters for Mailchimp, HubSpot, AWeber – MailOptin plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's 'post-meta' shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 1.2.70.3 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with contributor-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

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