PT-2023-31960 · WordPress · Magic Action Box

István Márton + 1 · Published 2023-10-20 · Updated 2023-10-30 · CVE-2023-5231

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 Magic Action Box plugin for WordPress versions up to, and including, 2.17.2

Description The issue is related to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via shortcodes 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 Magic Action Box plugin for WordPress versions up to, and including, 2.17.2, update to a version higher than 2.17.2 to resolve the issue. As a temporary workaround, consider restricting contributor-level and above permissions to minimize the risk of exploitation.

Fix

XSS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-79

Related Identifiers

CVE-2023-5231

Affected Products

Magic Action Box

References · 5

• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2023-5231 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-5231 · Security Note
• https://twitter.com/CVEnew/status/1715271092548296802 · Twitter Post
• https://wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/ce9b908b-1388-41fb-915c-e4e29eaf57ed?source=cve · Note
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/magic-action-box/tags/2.17.2/lib/functions.php#L287 · Note