Stored Cross-Site Scripting in Awesome Weather Widget for WordPress
CVE-2023-4944
5.4MEDIUM
Summary
The Awesome Weather Widget for WordPress plugin is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting due to inadequate input sanitization and output escaping on attributes of the 'awesome-weather' shortcode. This flaw allows authenticated attackers, holding contributor-level permissions or higher, to inject malicious web scripts that execute when users access compromised pages, potentially leading to severe security consequences.
Affected Version(s)
Awesome Weather Widget * <= 3.0.2
References
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