CVE-2023-4308

The User Submitted Posts plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the ‘user-submitted-content’ parameter in versions up to, and including, 20230809 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.

CVSS v3 5.4 MEDIUM

5.4^/10

CVSS v3 : MEDIUM

Vector :

Exploitability : 2.3 / Impact : 2.7

Attack Vector NETWORK

Attack Complexity LOW

Privileges Required LOW

User Interaction REQUIRED

Confidentiality Impact LOW

Integrity Impact LOW

Availability Impact NONE

Scope CHANGED

References

Link	Resource
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/2952471/user-submitted-posts	Patch
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/3bb4d37c-c4c2-4523-9b4e-73ffb7be81ea?source=cve	Third Party Advisory

Configurations

Configuration 1 (hide)

cpe:2.3:a:plugin-planet:user_submitted_posts:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*

History

No history.

Information

Published : 2023-08-15 08:15

Updated : 2023-11-07 04:22

NVD link : CVE-2023-4308

Mitre link : CVE-2023-4308

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2023-4308

JSON object : View

Products Affected

plugin-planet

user_submitted_posts

CWE

No CWE.

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