Vulnerability Details : 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.
Vulnerability category: Cross site scripting (XSS)
Products affected by CVE-2023-5001
- cpe:2.3:a:gopiplus:horizontal_scrolling_announcement:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*
Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2023-5001
0.05%
Probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days
EPSS Score History
~ 22 %
Percentile, the proportion of vulnerabilities that are scored at or less
CVSS scores for CVE-2023-5001
Base Score | Base Severity | CVSS Vector | Exploitability Score | Impact Score | Score Source | First Seen |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
5.4
|
MEDIUM | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N |
2.3
|
2.7
|
NIST | |
6.4
|
MEDIUM | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N |
3.1
|
2.7
|
Wordfence |
CWE ids for CVE-2023-5001
-
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:
- nvd@nist.gov (Primary)
- security@wordfence.com (Secondary)
References for CVE-2023-5001
-
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/d4f60e8c-2745-4930-9101-914bd73c6e1c?source=cve
Horizontal scrolling announcement <= 9.2 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via ShortcodeThird Party Advisory
-
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/horizontal-scrolling-announcement/trunk/horizontal-scrolling-announcement.php#L389
horizontal-scrolling-announcement.php in horizontal-scrolling-announcement/trunk – WordPress Plugin RepositoryPatch
Jump to