CVE-2023-5745

The Reusable Text Blocks plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'text-blocks' shortcode in versions up to, and including, 1.5.3 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers with author-level and above permissions to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

CVSS v3 5.5 MEDIUM

5.5^/10

CVSS v3 : MEDIUM

Vector :

Exploitability : 2.3 / Impact : 2.7

Attack Vector NETWORK

Attack Complexity LOW

Privileges Required HIGH

User Interaction NONE

Confidentiality Impact LOW

Integrity Impact LOW

Availability Impact NONE

Scope CHANGED

References

Link	Resource
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/reusable-text-blocks/tags/1.5.3/text-blocks.php#L319	Release Notes
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/0d627ee7-1175-4621-a477-1e9ec2d05eee?source=cve	Third Party Advisory
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/reusable-text-blocks/tags/1.5.3/text-blocks.php#L319	Release Notes
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/0d627ee7-1175-4621-a477-1e9ec2d05eee?source=cve	Third Party Advisory

Configurations

Configuration 1 (hide)

cpe:2.3:a:halgatewood:reusable_text_blocks:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*

History

21 Nov 2024, 08:42

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
New CVE

Information

Published : 2023-10-25 18:17

Updated : 2024-11-21 08:42

NVD link : CVE-2023-5745

Mitre link : CVE-2023-5745

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2023-5745

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Products Affected

halgatewood

reusable_text_blocks

CWE

CWE-79

Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

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