CVE-2023-5507 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

The ImageMapper plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'imagemap' shortcode in versions up to, and including, 1.2.6 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 0.00134.

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

Vendors	Products
Imagemapper Project Subscribe	Imagemapper Subscribe

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:imagemapper_project:imagemapper:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2023-57821	The ImageMapper plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'imagemap' shortcode in versions up to, and including, 1.2.6 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.

Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.

Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

References

Link	Providers
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/imagemapper/tags/1.2.6/imagemapper.php#L402
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/a6e687e9-6ffe-4457-8d57-3c03f657eb74?source=cve

History

Wed, 05 Feb 2025 19:15:00 +0000

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

Projects

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MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: Wordfence

Published: 2023-11-07T11:01:45.640Z

Updated: 2025-02-05T18:50:52.411Z

Reserved: 2023-10-10T19:49:07.540Z

Link: CVE-2023-5507

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-02T07:59:44.739Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2023-11-07T11:15:11.367

Modified: 2024-11-21T08:41:54.647

Link: CVE-2023-5507

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

CWE-79

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