PT-2023-31682 · WordPress · Advanced Menu Widget

István Márton + 1 · Published 2023-10-24 · Updated 2023-11-02 · CVE-2023-5085

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 Advanced Menu Widget plugin for WordPress versions up to, and including, 0.4.1

Description The issue is related to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'advMenu' 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, 0.4.1, update to a version that addresses the insufficient input sanitization and output escaping issue. As a temporary workaround, consider restricting access to the 'advMenu' shortcode for users with contributor-level and above permissions until a patch is available.

Fix

XSS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-79

Related Identifiers

CVE-2023-5085

Affected Products

Advanced Menu Widget

References · 6

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/advanced-menu-widget/trunk/class-advanced-menu-widget.php?rev=1471917#L74 · Patch
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2023-5085 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-5085 · Security Note
• https://wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/5da2dac6-940c-419e-853f-6cfd5d53d427?source=cve · Note
• https://t.me/cibsecurity/72871 · Telegram Post
• https://twitter.com/CVEnew/status/1716820466235781400 · Twitter Post