CVE-2023-0968 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

The Watu Quiz plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Reflected Cross-Site Scripting via the ‘dn’, 'email', 'points', and 'date' parameters in versions up to, and including, 3.3.9 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that execute if they can successfully trick a user into performing an action such as clicking on a link.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

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 0.12288.

Exploitation none

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

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Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.

Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

References

Link	Providers
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/watu/trunk/views/takings.php#L31
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/6341bdcc-c99f-40c3-81c4-ad90ff19f802

History

Mon, 13 Jan 2025 17:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

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MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: Wordfence

Published: 2023-03-03T21:29:17.221Z

Updated: 2025-01-13T17:02:28.710Z

Reserved: 2023-02-22T20:18:41.742Z

Link: CVE-2023-0968

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-02T05:32:46.026Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2023-03-03T22:15:09.557

Modified: 2024-11-21T07:38:12.250

Link: CVE-2023-0968

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

No weakness.

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