CVE-2023-4944 Information

Description

The Awesome Weather Widget for WordPress plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via ‘awesome-weather’ shortcode in versions up to and including 3.0.2 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 Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Reference

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/awesome-weather/tags/3.0.2/awesome-weather.php#L133 https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/3bf77988-370b-437f-83a0-18a147e3e087?source=cve https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/awesome-weather/tags/3.0.2/awesome-weather.php#L117

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

LOW

User Interaction Required

LOW

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

CHANGED

Integrity Impact

LOW

Availability Impact

LOW

Base Score

NONE

Base Severity

6.4