CVE-2023-5469 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

The Drop Shadow Boxes plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'dropshadowbox' shortcode in versions up to, and including, 1.7.13 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.

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 None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00142.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

Vendors	Products
Stevenhenty	Drop Shadow Boxes

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:stevenhenty:drop_shadow_boxes:*:*:*:*:*: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/drop-shadow-boxes/tags/1.7.12/dropshadowboxes.php#L319
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/2998610/drop-shadow-boxes#file1
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/c0b3911c-a960-4f28-b289-389b26282741?source=cve

History

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MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: Wordfence

Published: 2023-11-22T15:33:33.538Z

Updated: 2024-08-02T07:59:44.722Z

Reserved: 2023-10-09T15:58:12.138Z

Link: CVE-2023-5469

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2023-11-22T16:15:13.130

Modified: 2024-11-21T08:41:49.993

Link: CVE-2023-5469

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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