Stored Cross-Site Scripting in Carousel and Slider Plugins for WordPress
CVE-2023-5362

5.4MEDIUM

Key Information:

Vendor
Wordpress
Status
Carousel, Recent Post Slider and Banner Slider
Vendor
CVE Published:
30 October 2023

Summary

The Carousel, Recent Post Slider, and Banner Slider plugins for WordPress exhibit a vulnerability that allows authenticated users with contributor-level access or higher to exploit insufficient input sanitization and output escaping via the 'spice_post_slider' shortcode. This leads to the potential for attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts, which will execute whenever a user visits any page containing the injected content, thereby compromising the integrity of affected websites.

Affected Version(s)

Carousel, Recent Post Slider and Banner Slider * <= 2.0

References

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id...
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/spice-post-sli...
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/2981654/spic...

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
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