CVEvulnerability
CVE-2023-4890
5.4 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2023-09-12
- 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 JQuery Accordion Menu Widget plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'dcwp-jquery-accordion' shortcode in versions up to, and including, 3.1.2 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
• designchemical jquery accordion menu widget (<= 3.1.2)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation weakness
References
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/jquery-vertical-accordion-menu/tags/3.1.2/dcwp_jquery_accordion.php#L112 Patch
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/jquery-vertical-accordion-menu/tags/3.1.2/dcwp_jquery_accordion.php#L94 Patch
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/b0cf3015-cdc9-4ac9-82f3-e9b4d1203e22?source=cve Third Party Advisory
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/jquery-vertical-accordion-menu/tags/3.1.2/dcwp_jquery_accordion.php#L112 Patch
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/jquery-vertical-accordion-menu/tags/3.1.2/dcwp_jquery_accordion.php#L94 Patch
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/b0cf3015-cdc9-4ac9-82f3-e9b4d1203e22?source=cve Third Party Advisory