CVE-2023-0429 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

The Watu Quiz WordPress plugin before 3.3.8.2 does not sanitise and escape some of its settings, which could allow high privilege users such as admin to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed (for example in multisite setup).

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required High

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact Low

Integrity Impact Low

Availability Impact None

User Interaction Required

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00112.

Exploitation poc

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

Vendors	Products
Kibokolabs Subscribe	Watu Quiz Subscribe

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:kibokolabs:watu_quiz:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2023-12486	The Watu Quiz WordPress plugin before 3.3.8.2 does not sanitise and escape some of its settings, which could allow high privilege users such as admin to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed (for example in multisite setup).

Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.

Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

References

Link	Providers
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/67d84549-d368-4504-9fa9-b1fce63cb967

History

Wed, 12 Mar 2025 21:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics	cvssV3_1 `{'score': 4.8, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N'}`	ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'poc', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}` cvssV3_1 `{'score': 3.5, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N'}`

Projects

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MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: WPScan

Published: 2023-02-21T08:50:57.365Z

Updated: 2025-03-12T20:24:08.716Z

Reserved: 2023-01-20T13:23:35.046Z

Link: CVE-2023-0429

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-02T05:10:56.147Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2023-02-21T09:15:12.887

Modified: 2025-03-12T21:15:40.793

Link: CVE-2023-0429

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

No weakness.

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