PT-2023-32101 · WordPress · Jquery News Ticker

István Márton · Published 2023-12-18 · Updated 2023-12-22 · CVE-2023-5432

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 Jquery news ticker plugin for WordPress versions up to, and including, 3.1

Description The issue is related to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'jquery-news-ticker' 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, 3.1, consider disabling the 'jquery-news-ticker' shortcode until a patch is available to prevent exploitation. Restrict access to pages that use this shortcode to minimize the risk of arbitrary web script injection. Avoid using user-supplied attributes in the 'jquery-news-ticker' shortcode until the issue is resolved. At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

XSS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-79

Related Identifiers

CVE-2023-5432

Affected Products

Jquery News Ticker

References · 9

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-5432 · Security Note
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3010828/jquery-news-ticker · Patch
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2023-5432 · Vendor Advisory
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/jquery-news-ticker/trunk/jquery-news-ticker.php?rev=2827068#L124 · Note
• https://wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/d22d9414-2df9-4528-a426-dce6e83f8d44?source=cve · Note
• https://twitter.com/CVEnew/status/1736954308485107954 · Twitter Post
• https://t.me/cvenotify/64987 · Telegram Post
• https://t.me/cvenotify/64093 · Telegram Post
• https://twitter.com/VulmonFeeds/status/1737080012082127042 · Twitter Post