CVE-2023-4795 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

The Testimonial Slider Shortcode WordPress plugin before 1.1.9 does not validate and escape some of its shortcode attributes before outputting them back in the page, which could allow users with a role as low as contributor to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks which could be used against high privilege users such as admin

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 0.00103.

Exploitation poc

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

Vendors	Products
Sazzadh	Testimonial Slider Shortcode

Configuration 1 [-]

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Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.

Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

References

Link	Providers
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/b8390b4a-b43f-4bf6-a61b-dfcbc7b2e7a0

History

Wed, 23 Apr 2025 17:15:00 +0000

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

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: WPScan

Published: 2023-10-16T19:39:03.448Z

Updated: 2025-04-23T16:13:10.988Z

Reserved: 2023-09-06T13:29:43.259Z

Link: CVE-2023-4795

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-02T07:38:00.499Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2023-10-16T20:15:16.413

Modified: 2025-04-23T17:16:46.760

Link: CVE-2023-4795

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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