PT-2023-20177 · WordPress · Wpcs – Wordpress Currency Switcher Professional

Alex Thomas · Published 2023-06-09 · Updated 2023-06-14 · CVE-2023-2558

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 WPCS – WordPress Currency Switcher Professional plugin versions up to, and including, 1.1.9

Description The issue arises from insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user-supplied attributes in the wpcs current currency shortcode. This allows authenticated attackers with contributor-level permissions and above to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages. The injected scripts will execute whenever a user accesses the injected page.

Recommendations For versions up to, and including, 1.1.9, update to a version that addresses the insufficient input sanitization and output escaping issue in the wpcs current currency shortcode.

Fix

XSS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-79

Related Identifiers

CVE-2023-2558

Affected Products

Wpcs – Wordpress Currency Switcher Professional

References · 4

• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2023-2558 · Vendor Advisory
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/2911049/currency-switcher · Patch
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-2558 · Security Note
• https://wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/be054481-89b4-47d8-ad06-8622edea367f?source=cve · Note