CVE-2023-31072 — Unauth

Unauth. Reflected Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Praveen Goswami Advanced Category Template plugin <= 0.1 versions.

01What is this vulnerability?

Unauth. Reflected Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Praveen Goswami Advanced Category Template plugin <= 0.1 versions.

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
Praveen Goswami	Advanced Category Template	n/a

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

• Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
• Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
• Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

• Published: 2023-08-17T14:35:30.070Z
• Last modified: 2024-08-02T14:45:25.576Z

09References

• patchstack.com — https://patchstack.com/database/vulnerability/advanced-category-template/wordpre…