PT-2023-17386 · WordPress · Shiftcontroller Employee Shift Scheduling

Alex Thomas · Published 2023-06-09 · Updated 2023-06-16 · CVE-2023-1978

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

6.1

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions ShiftController Employee Shift Scheduling plugin for WordPress versions up to, and including, 4.9.25

Description The issue is related to Reflected Cross-Site Scripting via the query string due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This allows unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that execute if they can successfully trick a user into performing an action such as clicking on a link.

Recommendations For versions up to, and including, 4.9.25, update to a version higher than 4.9.25 to resolve the issue. As a temporary workaround, consider restricting access to query string parameters to minimize the risk of exploitation.

Fix

XSS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-79

Related Identifiers

CVE-2023-1978

Affected Products

Shiftcontroller Employee Shift Scheduling

References · 5

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/2898274/shiftcontroller · Patch
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2023-1978 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-1978 · Security Note
• https://t.me/cibsecurity/65088 · Telegram Post
• https://wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/b5c61212-e68e-4198-b078-18121576b767?source=cve · Note