CVE-2023-5126 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

The Delete Me plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'plugin_delete_me' shortcode in versions up to, and including, 3.0 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers with contributor-level and above permissions to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page. The shortcode is not displayed to administrators, so it cannot be used against administrator users.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity High

Privileges Required Low

Scope Changed

Confidentiality Impact Low

Integrity Impact Low

Availability Impact None

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00127.

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

Vendors	Products
Cmc3215	Delete Me

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:cmc3215:delete_me:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*

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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/delete-me/tags/3.0/inc/shortcode.php#L83
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/7a5123a7-8eb4-481e-88fe-6310be37a077?source=cve

History

Thu, 06 Feb 2025 08:15:00 +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: 2023-10-24T13:53:00.181Z

Updated: 2025-02-05T18:58:30.410Z

Reserved: 2023-09-22T15:43:01.078Z

Link: CVE-2023-5126

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-02T07:44:53.747Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2023-10-25T18:17:42.807

Modified: 2024-11-21T08:41:06.877

Link: CVE-2023-5126

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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