PT-2023-17109 · WordPress · Short Url Plugin

Etan Imanol Castro Aldrete · Published 2023-06-29 · Updated 2024-08-17 · CVE-2023-1602

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

4.8

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Short URL plugin for WordPress versions up to, and including, 1.6.4

Description The issue arises from insufficient input sanitization and output escaping, allowing stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks via the comment parameter. This enables authenticated attackers with administrator-level permissions and above to inject arbitrary web scripts into pages, which will execute when a user accesses an injected page.

Recommendations For versions up to, and including, 1.6.4, update to a version higher than 1.6.4 to resolve the issue. As a temporary workaround, consider restricting access to the comment parameter to minimize the risk of exploitation.

Fix

Related Identifiers

CVE-2023-1602

Affected Products

Short Url Plugin

References · 9

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/2931815/shorten-url/trunk/shorten-url.php · Patch
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-1602 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2023-1602 · Vendor Advisory
• https://t.me/cvenotify/53795 · Telegram Post
• https://wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/a5f29f35-da79-4389-a0a5-a1be0b0b8996?source=cve · Note
• https://wordpress.org/plugins/shorten-url/#developers · Note
• https://t.me/cvenotify/53276 · Telegram Post
• https://t.me/cvedetector/3382 · Telegram Post
• https://t.me/cvenotify/91018 · Telegram Post