CVEvulnerability
CVE-2023-4962
5.4 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2024-01-11
- 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 Video PopUp plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'video_popup' shortcode in versions up to, and including, 1.1.3 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
• wp-plugins video popup (<= 1.1.3)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation weakness
References
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/video-popup/trunk/features/shortcode.php?rev=2928708#L144 Broken Link
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3004434/video-popup Patch
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/670ea03e-2f76-48a4-9f40-bc4cfd987a89?source=cve Third Party Advisory
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/video-popup/trunk/features/shortcode.php?rev=2928708#L144 Broken Link
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3004434/video-popup Patch
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/670ea03e-2f76-48a4-9f40-bc4cfd987a89?source=cve Third Party Advisory