PT-2023-31003 · WordPress · Jquery Accordion Menu Widget

István Márton + 1 · Published 2023-09-11 · Updated 2023-09-14 · CVE-2023-4890

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 JQuery Accordion Menu Widget for WordPress versions up to, and including, 3.1.2

Description The issue is related to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'dcwp-jquery-accordion' 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 versions up to, and including, 3.1.2, update to a version that addresses the insufficient input sanitization and output escaping issue. As a temporary workaround, consider restricting access to the 'dcwp-jquery-accordion' shortcode to minimize the risk of exploitation.

Fix

XSS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-79

Related Identifiers

CVE-2023-4890

Affected Products

Jquery Accordion Menu Widget

References · 7

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/jquery-vertical-accordion-menu/tags/3.1.2/dcwp_jquery_accordion.php#L112 · Patch
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/jquery-vertical-accordion-menu/tags/3.1.2/dcwp_jquery_accordion.php#L94 · Patch
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2023-4890 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-4890 · Security Note
• https://twitter.com/CVEnew/status/1701420511610192018 · Twitter Post
• https://t.me/cvenotify/58044 · Telegram Post
• https://wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/b0cf3015-cdc9-4ac9-82f3-e9b4d1203e22?source=cve · Note