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CVE-2023-2812: Ultimate Dashboard < 3.7.6 - 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: 2023-06-19 · updated 2026-06-17

Description

The Ultimate Dashboard WordPress plugin before 3.7.6 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

• Ultimate Dashboard Project Ultimate Dashboard: before 3.7.6 — fixed in 3.7.6

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Ultimate Dashboard Project Ultimate Dashboard 3.7.6. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/7de4c313-359e-4450-85f5-d29f3c2f046a
• https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/7de4c313-359e-4450-85f5-d29f3c2f046a

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