CVE-2023-5911 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

The WP Custom Cursors | WordPress Cursor Plugin WordPress plugin through 3.2 does not sanitise and escape some of its settings, which could allow high privilege users such as admin to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed (for example in multisite setup)

Published: 2024-01-08

Score: 4.8 Medium

EPSS: < 1% Very Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

Unknown

WP Custom Cursors | WordPress Cursor Plugin

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`0`	affected	≤ 3.2

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:hamidrezasepehr:wp_custom_cursors_\|_wordpress_cursor_plugin:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*

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Remediation

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Tracking

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Advisories

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No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required High

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 0.00198.

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

References

Link	Providers
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/dde0767d-1dff-4261-adbe-1f3fdf2d9aae

History

Wed, 18 Jun 2025 16:15:00 +0000

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

Subscriptions

Hamidrezasepehr Wp Custom Cursors \| Wordpress Cursor Plugin

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: WPScan

Published: 2024-01-08T19:00:37.176Z

Updated: 2025-06-18T16:03:35.125Z

Reserved: 2023-11-01T18:10:06.299Z

Link: CVE-2023-5911

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-02T08:14:24.669Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2024-01-08T19:15:09.843

Modified: 2025-06-18T16:15:24.330

Link: CVE-2023-5911

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

CWE-79

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