PT-2023-32243 · WordPress · Wp Mapit

István Márton + 1 · Published 2023-11-07 · Updated 2023-11-14 · CVE-2023-5658

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 WP MapIt plugin for WordPress versions up to, and including, 2.7.1

Description The issue arises from insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user-supplied attributes in the 'wp mapit' 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 WP MapIt plugin for WordPress versions up to, and including, 2.7.1, update to a version that addresses the insufficient input sanitization and output escaping issue. 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-2023-5658

Affected Products

Wp Mapit

References · 5

• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2023-5658 · Vendor Advisory
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-mapit/tags/2.7.1/wp_mapit/classes/class.wp_mapit_map.php#L235 · Patch
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-5658 · Security Note
• https://wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/7ef6f598-e1a7-4036-9485-1aad0416349a?source=cve · Note
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-mapit/trunk/wp_mapit/classes/class-wp-mapit-multipin-map.php?rev=3005523#L184 · Note