CVE-2023-4772

Summary

The Newsletter plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'newsletter_form' shortcode in versions up to, and including, 7.8.9 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.

Affected Software

Weaknesses

• CWE-79: CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

ADP Enrichment

CVE Program Container

Additional References

• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/87da5300-1add-44fc-a3e0-e8912f946c84?source=cve
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/newsletter/tags/7.8.9/subscription/subscription.php#L1653
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/2955097/newsletter#file21

CISA ADP Vulnrichment

• SSVC:
• Exploitation: none
  • Automatable: no
  • Technical Impact: partial

References

• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/87da5300-1add-44fc-a3e0-e8912f946c84?source=cve
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/newsletter/tags/7.8.9/subscription/subscription.php#L1653
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/2955097/newsletter#file21

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