CVE-2023-5741 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

The POWR plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's 'powr-powr-pack' shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 2.1.0 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.

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 0.00096.

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

Vendors	Products
Powr	Powr

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:powr:powr:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2023-58027	The POWR plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's 'powr-powr-pack' shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 2.1.0 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.

Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.

Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

References

Link	Providers
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/powr-pack/trunk/src/pack.php?rev=2821707#L198
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/powr-pack/trunk/src/pack.php?rev=2821707#L201
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/c2967eae-82bb-4556-a21a-c5bb6b905c62?source=cve

History

Wed, 08 Jan 2025 22:15:00 +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: 2023-11-13T07:31:16.052Z

Updated: 2025-01-08T21:32:03.419Z

Reserved: 2023-10-24T01:31:06.094Z

Link: CVE-2023-5741

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-02T08:07:32.623Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2023-11-13T08:15:26.317

Modified: 2024-11-21T08:42:23.550

Link: CVE-2023-5741

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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