CVE-2023-5161 Information

Description

The Modal Window plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via shortcodes in versions up to and including 5.3.5 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:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Reference

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/modal-window/tags/5.3.5/public/shortcode.php#L53 https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/2971132/modal-window#file196 https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/modal-window/tags/5.3.5/public/class-public.php#L73 https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/2971132/modal-window#file195 https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/48e2129f-6a2c-45e4-a0cf-7d8d5f563a7f?source=cve

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

LOW

User Interaction Required

LOW

Scope

REQUIRED

Confidentiality Impact

CHANGED

Integrity Impact

LOW

Availability Impact

LOW

Base Score

NONE

Base Severity

5.4