CVEvulnerability
CVE-2023-4716
5.4 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2023-09-22
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 6.4 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.4 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-79
Description
The Media Library Assistant plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'mla_gallery' shortcode in versions up to, and including, 3.10 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. This makes it possible for 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.
Affected configurations
• davidlingren media library assistant (<= 3.10)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation weakness
References
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/media-library-assistant/trunk/includes/class-mla-shortcode-support.php?rev=2955933#L1507 Patch
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/media-library-assistant/trunk/includes/class-mla-shortcode-support.php?rev=2955933#L1511 Patch
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/media-library-assistant/trunk/includes/class-mla-shortcode-support.php?rev=2955933#L1515 Patch
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/media-library-assistant/trunk/includes/class-mla-shortcode-support.php?rev=2955933#L1531 Patch
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/2963256/media-library-assistant Patch
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/c5f6ae5d-7854-44c7-9fb8-efaa6e850d59?source=cve Third Party Advisory
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/media-library-assistant/trunk/includes/class-mla-shortcode-support.php?rev=2955933#L1507 Patch
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/media-library-assistant/trunk/includes/class-mla-shortcode-support.php?rev=2955933#L1511 Patch
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/media-library-assistant/trunk/includes/class-mla-shortcode-support.php?rev=2955933#L1515 Patch
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/media-library-assistant/trunk/includes/class-mla-shortcode-support.php?rev=2955933#L1531 Patch
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/2963256/media-library-assistant Patch
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/c5f6ae5d-7854-44c7-9fb8-efaa6e850d59?source=cve Third Party Advisory