CVE-2023-5062

Summary

The WordPress Charts plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'wp_charts' shortcode in versions up to, and including, 0.7.0 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.

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/2de2d2c5-1373-45b6-93a0-575713226669?source=cve
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-charts/tags/0.7.0/wordpress_charts_js.php#L223
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-charts/tags/0.7.0/wordpress_charts_js.php#L229

CISA ADP Vulnrichment

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

References

• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/2de2d2c5-1373-45b6-93a0-575713226669?source=cve
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-charts/tags/0.7.0/wordpress_charts_js.php#L223
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-charts/tags/0.7.0/wordpress_charts_js.php#L229

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