Medium
Security advisory
A stored cross site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in phplist 3.5.3 allows attackers to execute arbitrary web scripts or HTML via a crafted payload entered into the "Send test" field under the "Start or continue campaign" module.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2020-23208
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 11:05 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
A stored cross site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in phplist 3.5.3 allows attackers to execute arbitrary web scripts or HTML via a crafted payload entered into the "Send test" field under the "Start or continue campaign" module.
osv:CVE-2020-23208
Complete source record
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"id": "8f0091c1f823a49eef05c56967818d73c71d273de1d14b44aa79da7b67a8622f",
"url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2020-23208",
"method": "structured",
"payload": {
"kind": "advisory",
"title": "CVE-2020-23208",
"summary": "A stored cross site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in phplist 3.5.3 allows attackers to execute arbitrary web scripts or HTML via a crafted payload entered into the \"Send test\" field under the \"Start or continue campaign\" module.",
"evidence": "osv:CVE-2020-23208",
"products": [],
"severity": "medium",
"structured": {
"id": "CVE-2020-23208",
"aliases": [
"BIT-phplist-2020-23208",
"CVE-2020-23208"
],
"metrics": [
{
"type": "CVSS_V3",
"score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N"
}
],
"affected": [
{
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{
"repo": "https://github.com/phplist/phplist3",
"type": "GIT",
"events": [
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},
{
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}
],
"database_specific": {
"extracted_events": [
{
"cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:phplist:phplist:3.5.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
"range": [
{
"introduced": "3.5.3"
},
{
"last_affected": "3.5.3"
}
],
"source": "CPE_STRING"
}
]
}
}
],
"versions": [
"3.5.3"
],
"database_specific": {
"source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2020-23208.json"
}
}
],
"modified": "2026-10-20T10:52:48.957109393Z",
"provider": "osv",
"references": [
"https://github.com/phpList/phplist3/issues/665"
],
"provider_metadata": {}
},
"related_cves": [
{
"value": "CVE-2020-23208",
"evidence": "/id"
}
],
"security_relevant": true,
"severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
},
"source_id": "core-osv",
"document_id": 383852,
"published_at": "2021-07-01T21:15:08.04+00:00"
}