PT-2023-30768 · WordPress · Embed Privacy

Matzekitt · Published 2023-11-20 · Updated 2023-11-25 · CVE-2023-48300

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

6.3

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Embed Privacy plugin for WordPress versions up to, and including, 1.8.0

Description The issue is related to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the embed privacy opt out shortcode due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user-supplied attributes. This allows authenticated attackers with contributor-level and above permissions to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

Recommendations For Embed Privacy plugin for WordPress versions up to, and including, 1.8.0, update to version 1.8.1 to resolve the issue.

Exploit

Fix

XSS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-79

Related Identifiers

CVE-2023-48300

GHSA-3WV9-4RVF-W37G

Affected Products

Embed Privacy

References · 8

• 🔥 https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2023/48xxx/CVE-2023-48300.json · Exploit
• 🔥 https://d.pr/v/ORuIat · Exploit
• https://github.com/epiphyt/embed-privacy/security/advisories/GHSA-3wv9-4rvf-w37g · Vendor Advisory
• https://github.com/epiphyt/embed-privacy/commit/f80929992b2a5a66f4f4953cd6f46cc227154a5c · Patch
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-48300 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2023-48300 · Vendor Advisory
• https://github.com/epiphyt/embed-privacy/issues/199 · Note
• https://t.me/latest_high_impact_cve/101 · Telegram Post