CVE-2023-1978 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

The ShiftController Employee Shift Scheduling plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Reflected Cross-Site Scripting via the query string in versions up to, and including, 4.9.25 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 0.00926.

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

Vendors	Products
Plainware	Shiftcontroller

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:plainware:shiftcontroller:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2023-24158	The ShiftController Employee Shift Scheduling plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Reflected Cross-Site Scripting via the query string in versions up to, and including, 4.9.25 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.

Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.

Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

References

Link	Providers
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/2898274/shiftcontroller
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/b5c61212-e68e-4198-b078-18121576b767?source=cve

History

Sat, 21 Dec 2024 00:15:00 +0000

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

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: Wordfence

Published: 2023-06-09T05:33:29.864Z

Updated: 2024-12-20T23:36:23.991Z

Reserved: 2023-04-11T11:51:39.639Z

Link: CVE-2023-1978

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-02T06:05:27.096Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2023-06-09T06:16:00.060

Modified: 2024-11-21T07:40:16.160

Link: CVE-2023-1978

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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