PT-2023-31976 · WordPress · Fareharbor

István Márton + 1 · Published 2023-10-30 · Updated 2023-11-08 · CVE-2023-5252

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 FareHarbor plugin for WordPress versions up to, and including, 3.6.7

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 FareHarbor plugin for WordPress versions up to, and including, 3.6.7, update to a version that addresses the insufficient input sanitization and output escaping issue. As a temporary workaround, consider restricting contributor-level and above permissions to minimize the risk of exploitation.

Fix

XSS

SQL injection

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-79

CWE-89

Related Identifiers

CVE-2023-5252

Affected Products

Fareharbor

References · 6

• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2023-5252 · Vendor Advisory
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/fareharbor/tags/3.6.7/fareharbor.php#L287 · Patch
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-5252 · Security Note
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=2890569%40fareharbor%2Ftags%2F3.6.7&new=2985980%40fareharbor%2Ftags%2F3.6.8 · Note
• https://wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/42ad6fef-4280-45db-a3e2-6d7522751fa7?source=cve · Note
• https://twitter.com/CVEnew/status/1718994959032807911 · Twitter Post