CVE-2023-5291 Information

Description

The Blog Filter plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via ‘AWL-BlogFilter’ 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 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/changeset/2974261/blog-filter#file54 https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/blog-filter/tags/1.5.3/blog-filter-output.php#L128 https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/b95c1bf7-bb05-44d3-a185-7e38e62b7201?source=cve

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