PT-2023-32124 · WordPress · Drop Shadow Boxes

István Márton · Published 2023-11-22 · Updated 2023-11-28 · CVE-2023-5469

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 Drop Shadow Boxes plugin for WordPress versions up to, and including, 1.7.13

Description The issue arises from insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user-supplied attributes in the dropshadowbox shortcode. This allows authenticated attackers with contributor-level and above permissions to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages. The injected scripts will execute whenever a user accesses the injected page.

Recommendations For versions up to, and including, 1.7.13, update to a version that addresses the insufficient input sanitization and output escaping issue in the dropshadowbox shortcode. As a temporary workaround, consider restricting access to the dropshadowbox shortcode for users with contributor-level and above permissions until a patch is available.

Fix

XSS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-79

Related Identifiers

CVE-2023-5469

Affected Products

Drop Shadow Boxes

References · 6

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/2998610/drop-shadow-boxes#file1 · Patch
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/drop-shadow-boxes/tags/1.7.12/dropshadowboxes.php#L319 · Patch
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2023-5469 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-5469 · Security Note
• https://wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/c0b3911c-a960-4f28-b289-389b26282741?source=cve · Note
• https://t.me/cvenotify/61366 · Telegram Post