CVE-2025-0957: Vulnerability: SMTP for Amazon SES <= 1.8 - Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Email Logs

Severity: high (CVSS 7.2 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: none known
Published: 2025-02-22 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

The SMTP for Amazon SES – YaySMTP plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting in versions up to, and including, 1.7.1 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

Affected products

yaycommerce SMTP for Amazon SES – YaySMTP: through 1.8

References

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/smtp-amazon-ses/trunk/includes/Functions.php
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/smtp-amazon-ses/trunk/includes/Helper/Utils.php
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3270161/
https://wordpress.org/plugins/smtp-amazon-ses/#developers
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/f6424fc9-f118-4654-89a7-1f7e6efa2c02?source=cve

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