PT-2023-17152 · WordPress · Display Post Meta

Francesco Carlucci · Published 2023-05-31 · Updated 2023-06-06 · CVE-2023-1661

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

6.4

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Display post meta, term meta, comment meta, and user meta plugin for WordPress versions up to, and including, 0.4.1

Description The issue arises from insufficient input sanitization and output escaping, allowing authenticated attackers with contributor-level permissions and above to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages. This can lead to the execution of injected scripts whenever a user accesses an injected page.

Recommendations For versions up to, and including, 0.4.1, update to a version that addresses the insufficient input sanitization and output escaping issue to prevent stored cross-site scripting attacks.

Fix

XSS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-79

Related Identifiers

CVE-2023-1661

Affected Products

Display Post Meta

References · 4

• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2023-1661 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-1661 · Security Note
• https://wordpress.org/plugins/display-metadata/#developers · Note
• https://wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/6f90c0d8-ede6-4f24-870f-19e888238e93?source=cve · Note