CVE-2023-4970

MEDIUM 4.8CVE-2023-4970 · Published 20/11/2023 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2023-4970 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 4.8) vulnerability affecting pubydoc (pubydoc).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 0.50%, higher than 42.8% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
pubydoc pubydoc	`≤ 2.0.6`	No fix yet

Description

The PubyDoc WordPress plugin through 2.0.6 does not sanitise and escape some of its settings, which could allow high privilege users such as admin to perform Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when unfiltered_html is disallowed

References

wpscan.com/vulnerability/845bbfdd-fe9f-487c-91a0-5fe10403d8a2 · Exploit

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