What’s Vulnerable › Vulnerabilities

CVE-2023-2225: SEO ALert <= 1.59 - Admin+ Stored XSS

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2023-08-16 · updated 2026-06-17

Description

The SEO ALert WordPress plugin through 1.59 does not sanitise and escape some of its settings, which could allow high privilege users such as admin to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed (for example in multisite setup).

Affected products

• SEO ALert: through 1.59

References

• https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/0af475ba-5c02-4f62-876d-6235a745bbd6
• https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/0af475ba-5c02-4f62-876d-6235a745bbd6

Get alerted when CVE-2023-2225 or the next vulnerability affects your stack