Stored Cross-Site Scripting in Drop Shadow Boxes Plugin for WordPress
CVE-2023-5469

5.4MEDIUM

Key Information:

Vendor

Wordpress
Status
Drop Shadow Boxes
Vendor
CVE Published:
22 November 2023

What is CVE-2023-5469?

The Drop Shadow Boxes plugin for WordPress presents a risk of Stored Cross-Site Scripting due to inadequate input sanitization and output escaping on the 'dropshadowbox' shortcode. This vulnerability affects all versions up to and including 1.7.13, allowing contributors and higher-level authenticated users to inject malicious scripts into website pages. When these pages are accessed by other users, the injected scripts will execute, potentially compromising site integrity and user data.

Affected Version(s)

Drop Shadow Boxes * <= 1.7.13

References

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id...
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/drop-shadow-bo...
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/2998610/drop...

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

István Márton
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