CVE-2023-4963

The WS Facebook Like Box Widget for WordPress plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'ws-facebook-likebox' shortcode in versions up to, and including, 5.0 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers with contributor-level and above permissions to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

CVSS v3 6.4 MEDIUM

6.4^/10

CVSS v3 : MEDIUM

Vector :

Exploitability : 3.1 / Impact : 2.7

Attack Vector NETWORK

Attack Complexity LOW

Privileges Required LOW

User Interaction NONE

Confidentiality Impact LOW

Integrity Impact LOW

Availability Impact NONE

Scope CHANGED

References

Link	Resource
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ws-facebook-likebox/trunk/includes/shortcodes.php#L22	Product
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/8bebc229-9d15-439f-a8df-f68455bc5193?source=cve	Third Party Advisory
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ws-facebook-likebox/trunk/includes/shortcodes.php#L22	Product
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/8bebc229-9d15-439f-a8df-f68455bc5193?source=cve	Third Party Advisory

Configurations

Configuration 1 (hide)

cpe:2.3:a:webshouters:ws_facebook_like_box_widget:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*

History

21 Nov 2024, 08:36

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
New CVE

Information

Published : 2023-09-15 03:15

Updated : 2024-11-21 08:36

NVD link : CVE-2023-4963

Mitre link : CVE-2023-4963

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2023-4963

JSON object : View

Products Affected

webshouters

ws_facebook_like_box_widget

CWE

No CWE.

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