Stored Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability in TaxoPress Plugin for WordPress
CVE-2023-2170
4.8MEDIUM
Key Information:
- Vendor
Wordpress
- Vendor
- CVE Published:
- 19 April 2023
What is CVE-2023-2170?
The TaxoPress plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting due to inadequate input sanitization and output escaping in its Related Posts feature. This vulnerability allows authenticated users with Editor or higher permissions to inject arbitrary scripts into web pages. The injected scripts are executed in the browsers of users accessing those pages, potentially compromising site security and visitor safety. Users are urged to update to the latest version or mitigate the risk by restricting plugin access.
Affected Version(s)
TaxoPress is the WordPress Tag, Category, and Taxonomy Manager * <= 3.6.4