CVE-2023-5001

The Horizontal scrolling announcement for WordPress plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'horizontal-scrolling' shortcode in versions up to, and including, 9.2 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers with contributor-level and above permissions 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/browser/horizontal-scrolling-announcement/trunk/horizontal-scrolling-announcement.php#L389	Patch
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/d4f60e8c-2745-4930-9101-914bd73c6e1c?source=cve	Third Party Advisory

Configurations

Configuration 1 (hide)

cpe:2.3:a:gopiplus:horizontal_scrolling_announcement:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*

History

No history.

Information

Published : 2023-09-16 05:15

Updated : 2023-11-07 04:23

NVD link : CVE-2023-5001

Mitre link : CVE-2023-5001

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2023-5001

JSON object : View

Products Affected

gopiplus

horizontal_scrolling_announcement

CWE

CWE-79

Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

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