Stored Cross-Site Scripting in WP Post Columns Plugin for WordPress
CVE-2023-5708

6.4MEDIUM

Key Information:

Vendor

WordPress
Status
WP Post Columns
Vendor
CVE Published:
22 November 2023

What is CVE-2023-5708?

The WP Post Columns plugin for WordPress is susceptible to Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) due to inadequate sanitization and escaping of user-supplied attributes in the 'column' shortcode. This vulnerability affects all versions up to and including 2.2, enabling authenticated users with contributor-level permissions or higher to inject arbitrary scripts into pages. These scripts will execute whenever a user accesses the affected page, potentially compromising the site’s integrity and user security.

Affected Version(s)

WP Post Columns 0 <= 2.2

References

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id...
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-post-column...

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

István Márton
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