Stored Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability in Copy Anything to Clipboard Plugin for WordPress
CVE-2023-5086

6.4MEDIUM

Key Information:

Vendor

WordPress
Status
Copy Anything To Clipboard For WordPress – Copy Button, Copy Text & Copy Code
Vendor
CVE Published:
20 October 2023

What is CVE-2023-5086?

The Copy Anything to Clipboard plugin for WordPress suffers from a Stored Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability that arises from insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user-supplied data via the 'copy' shortcode. When this vulnerability is exploited by authenticated users with contributor-level access or higher, they can inject malicious web scripts into pages. These scripts will execute whenever other users access the affected pages, potentially compromising user data and session integrity.

Affected Version(s)

Copy Anything to Clipboard for WordPress – Copy Button, Copy Text & Copy Code 0 <= 2.6.4

References

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id...
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/copy-the-code/...
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/2969441/copy...

CVSS V3.1

Score:
6.4
Severity:
MEDIUM
Confidentiality:
Low
Integrity:
Low
Availability:
Low
Attack Vector:
Network
Attack Complexity:
Low
Privileges Required:
Low
User Interaction:
None
Scope:
Changed

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

Credit

Lana Codes
.