CVE-2023-0893 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

The Time Sheets WordPress plugin before 1.29.3 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)

Published: 2023-04-10

Score: 4.8 Medium

EPSS: < 1% Very Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

Unknown

Time Sheets

unaffected

Version	Status	Constraints
`0`	affected	< 1.29.3

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:dcac:time_sheets:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*

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Remediation

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2023-12882	The Time Sheets WordPress plugin before 1.29.3 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 Changed

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 0.00226.

Exploitation poc

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

References

Link	Providers
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/fd6ef6ee-15e9-44ac-a2db-976393a3b71a

History

Tue, 11 Feb 2025 16:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Weaknesses		CWE-79
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'poc', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

Subscriptions

Dcac Time Sheets

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: WPScan

Published: 2023-04-10T13:17:53.888Z

Updated: 2025-02-11T15:13:23.965Z

Reserved: 2023-02-17T15:00:58.320Z

Link: CVE-2023-0893

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-02T05:24:34.603Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2023-04-10T14:15:08.613

Modified: 2025-02-11T16:15:30.783

Link: CVE-2023-0893

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

CWE-79

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