PT-2023-31227 · WordPress · Awesome Weather Widget

István Márton + 1 · Published 2023-09-13 · Updated 2023-09-19 · CVE-2023-4944

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 The Awesome Weather Widget for WordPress plugin versions up to, and including, 3.0.2

Description The issue is related to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'awesome-weather' 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, 3.0.2, update to a version that addresses the insufficient input sanitization and output escaping issue. As a temporary workaround, consider restricting access to the 'awesome-weather' shortcode for users with contributor-level and above permissions until a patch is available.

Fix

XSS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-79

Related Identifiers

CVE-2023-4944

Affected Products

Awesome Weather Widget

References · 7

• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2023-4944 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-4944 · Security Note
• https://wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/3bf77988-370b-437f-83a0-18a147e3e087?source=cve · Note
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/awesome-weather/tags/3.0.2/awesome-weather.php#L133 · Note
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/awesome-weather/tags/3.0.2/awesome-weather.php#L117 · Note
• https://t.me/cibsecurity/70426 · Telegram Post
• https://twitter.com/CVEnew/status/1702153648124633284 · Twitter Post