PT-2023-32297 · WordPress · Telephone Number Linker

István Márton + 1 · Published 2023-11-07 · Updated 2023-11-14 · CVE-2023-5743

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 Telephone Number Linker plugin for WordPress versions up to, and including, 1.2

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

Recommendations For versions up to, and including, 1.2, update to a version that addresses the insufficient input sanitization and output escaping issue in the telnumlink shortcode.

Fix

XSS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-79

Related Identifiers

CVE-2023-5743

Affected Products

Telephone Number Linker

References · 5

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-5743 · Security Note
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/telephone-number-linker/tags/1.2/telnumlinker.php#L34 · Patch
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2023-5743 · Vendor Advisory
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/telephone-number-linker/tags/1.2/telnumlinker.php#L36 · Patch
• https://wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/06424d9f-0064-4101-b819-688489a18eee?source=cve · Note