CVE-2023-4757 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

The Staff / Employee Business Directory for Active Directory WordPress plugin before 1.2.3 does not sanitize and escape data returned from the LDAP server before rendering it in the page, allowing users who can control their entries in the LDAP directory to inject malicious javascript which could be used against high-privilege users such as a site admin.

Published: 2024-01-16

Score: 5.4 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

Staff / Employee Business Directory for Active Directory

unaffected

Version	Status	Constraints
`0`	affected	< 1.2.3

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:miniorange:staff_\/_employee_business_directory_for_active_directory:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*

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Remediation

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Tracking

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Advisories

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No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required Low

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 0.0024.

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

References

Link	Providers
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/0b953413-cf41-4de7-ac1f-c6cb995fb158/

History

Fri, 20 Jun 2025 17:15:00 +0000

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

Subscriptions

Miniorange Staff \/ Employee Business Directory For Active Directory

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: WPScan

Published: 2024-01-16T15:56:36.620Z

Updated: 2025-06-20T17:06:07.342Z

Reserved: 2023-09-04T11:54:51.663Z

Link: CVE-2023-4757

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-02T07:37:59.629Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2024-01-16T16:15:13.350

Modified: 2025-06-20T17:15:34.383

Link: CVE-2023-4757

Redhat

No data.

OpenCVE Enrichment

No data.

Weaknesses

CWE-79

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