Stored Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability in the Accordion Plugin for WordPress
CVE-2023-5666

6.4MEDIUM

Key Information:

Vendor

WordPress
Status
Accordions – Responsive Accordion & Faq Plugin For WordPress
Vendor
CVE Published:
30 October 2023

What is CVE-2023-5666?

The Accordion plugin for WordPress is susceptible to Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) due to inadequate input sanitization and output escaping of user-supplied attributes in the 'tcpaccordion' shortcode. This vulnerability affects all versions through 2.6, allowing authenticated attackers with contributor-level permissions or higher to inject malicious web scripts into pages. These scripts will execute in the browsers of users accessing the compromised pages, potentially leading to unauthorized actions and data theft.

Affected Version(s)

Accordions – Responsive Accordion & FAQ Plugin for WordPress 0 <= 2.6

References

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id...
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/accordions-wp/...
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/2982015/acco...

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
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