SB2025070472 - Stored cross-site scripting in SMTP for Amazon SES – YaySMTP plugin for WordPress
Published: July 4, 2025
Breakdown by Severity
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- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 vulnerability.
1) Stored cross-site scripting (CVE-ID: CVE-2025-3434)
CWE-ID: CWE-79 - Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
CVSSv4: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
The disclosed vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks.
The vulnerability exists due to insufficient sanitization of user-supplied data within Email Logs. A remote attacker can inject and execute arbitrary HTML and script code in user's browser in context of vulnerable website.
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may allow a remote attacker to steal potentially sensitive information, change appearance of the web page, perform phishing and drive-by-download attacks.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.
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/
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/78ac91af-4d71-43f4-b9fc-cf5e6874e7de?source=cve