Vulnerability Details : CVE-2023-4423
Potential exploit
The WP Event Manager – Events Calendar, Registrations, Sell Tickets with WooCommerce plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via admin settings in versions up to, and including, 3.1.37.1 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with administrator-level permissions and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page. This only affects multi-site installations and installations where unfiltered_html has been disabled.
Vulnerability category: Cross site scripting (XSS)
Products affected by CVE-2023-4423
- cpe:2.3:a:wp-eventmanager:wp_event_manager:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*
Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2023-4423
0.10%
Probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days
EPSS Score History
~ 42 %
Percentile, the proportion of vulnerabilities that are scored at or less
CVSS scores for CVE-2023-4423
Base Score | Base Severity | CVSS Vector | Exploitability Score | Impact Score | Score Source | First Seen |
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4.8
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MEDIUM | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N |
1.7
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2.7
|
NIST | |
4.4
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MEDIUM | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N |
1.3
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2.7
|
Wordfence |
CWE ids for CVE-2023-4423
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The product does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes user-controllable input before it is placed in output that is used as a web page that is served to other users.Assigned by: security@wordfence.com (Primary)
References for CVE-2023-4423
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https://github.com/wpeventmanager/wp-event-manager/issues/1483
Security Issue · Issue #1483 · wpeventmanager/wp-event-manager · GitHubExploit;Issue Tracking;Patch;Vendor Advisory
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https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/dd9d22b0-a84a-4bf2-b8b4-89bae2970f29?source=cve
WP Event Manager – Events Calendar, Registrations, Sell Tickets with WooCommerce <= 3.1.37.1 - Authenticated (Admin+) Stored Cross-Site ScriptingThird Party Advisory
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https://github.com/Jacky-Y/vuls/blob/main/vul5.md
vuls/vul5.md at main · Jacky-Y/vuls · GitHubExploit;Third Party Advisory
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https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&new=2969034%40wp-event-manager%2Ftrunk&old=2953169%40wp-event-manager%2Ftrunk&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
Diff [2953169:2969034] for wp-event-manager/trunk – WordPress Plugin RepositoryPatch
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