Advanced Recent Posts <= 0.6.14 - Contributor+ Stored XSS
CVE-2023-0212

5.4MEDIUM

Key Information:

Vendor
Wordpress
Status
Advanced Recent Posts
Vendor
CVE Published:
6 March 2023

Summary

The Advanced Recent Posts WordPress plugin through 0.6.14 does not validate and escape some of its shortcode attributes before outputting them back in a page/post where the shortcode is embed, which could allow users with the contributor role and above to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks.

Affected Version(s)

Advanced Recent Posts 0 <= 0.6.14

References

https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/5fdd44aa-7f3f-423a-9fb0-...
exploitvdb-entrytechnical-description

CVSS V3.1

Score:
5.4
Severity:
MEDIUM
Confidentiality:
Low
Integrity:
Low
Availability:
Low
Attack Vector:
Network
Attack Complexity:
Low
Privileges Required:
Low
User Interaction:
Required
Scope:
Changed

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

Credit

Lana Codes
WPScan
.