PT-2023-31601 · WordPress · Wordpress Charts

István Márton + 1 · Published 2023-09-19 · Updated 2023-09-20 · CVE-2023-5062

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 WordPress Charts plugin for WordPress versions up to, and including, 0.7.0

Description The issue is related to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the wp charts 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 WordPress Charts plugin for WordPress versions up to, and including, 0.7.0: Update to a version later than 0.7.0 to resolve the issue. As a temporary workaround, consider restricting access to the wp charts shortcode for users with contributor-level and above permissions until a patch is available.

Fix

XSS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-79

Related Identifiers

CVE-2023-5062

Affected Products

Wordpress Charts

References · 8

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-5062 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2023-5062 · Vendor Advisory
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-charts/tags/0.7.0/wordpress_charts_js.php#L223 · Note
• https://t.me/cibsecurity/70772 · Telegram Post
• https://twitter.com/VulmonFeeds/status/1704370577866121284 · Twitter Post
• https://twitter.com/CVEnew/status/1704324108962365823 · Twitter Post
• https://wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/2de2d2c5-1373-45b6-93a0-575713226669?source=cve · Note
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-charts/tags/0.7.0/wordpress_charts_js.php#L229 · Note