CVEvulnerability
CVE-2023-4893
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:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-918
Description
The Crayon Syntax Highlighter plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Server Side Request Forgery via the 'crayon' shortcode in versions up to, and including, 2.8.4. This can allow authenticated attackers with contributor-level permissions or above to make web requests to arbitrary locations originating from the web application and can be used to query and modify information from internal services.
Affected configurations
• aramk crayon-syntax-highlighter (<= 2.8.4)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-918 Server-Side Request Forgery weakness
References
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/crayon-syntax-highlighter/trunk/crayon_highlighter.class.php#L83 Broken Link
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/527f75f1-6361-4e16-8ae4-d38ca4589811?source=cve Third Party Advisory
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/crayon-syntax-highlighter/trunk/crayon_highlighter.class.php#L83 Broken Link
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/527f75f1-6361-4e16-8ae4-d38ca4589811?source=cve Third Party Advisory