PT-2023-18335 · WordPress · Taxopress

Ivan Kuzymchak · Published 2023-04-19 · Updated 2023-04-27 · CVE-2023-2168

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

5.5

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions TaxoPress plugin for WordPress versions up to, and including, 3.6.4

Description The issue is related to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the Suggest Terms Title field due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This allows authenticated attackers with Editor+ permissions to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

Recommendations For TaxoPress plugin for WordPress versions up to, and including, 3.6.4, update to a version later than 3.6.4 to resolve the issue. As a temporary workaround, consider restricting access to the Suggest Terms Title field to prevent potential exploitation.

Fix

XSS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-79

Related Identifiers

CVE-2023-2168

Affected Products

Taxopress

References · 7

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&new=2868795%40simple-tags%2Ftrunk&old=2774153%40simple-tags%2Ftrunk&sfp_email=&sfph_mail= · Patch
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-2168 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2023-2168 · Vendor Advisory
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/simple-tags/trunk/inc/suggestterms-functions.php?rev=2743620#L151 · Patch
• https://wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/1c051bfd-2754-4faf-8062-91752555166c?source=cve · Note
• https://t.me/cvenotify/48572 · Telegram Post
• https://t.me/cvenotify/49151 · Telegram Post