CVEvulnerability
CVE-2023-5231
5.4 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2023-10-20
- 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 Magic Action Box plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via shortcodes in versions up to, and including, 2.17.2 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
• pogidude magic action box (<= 2.17.2)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation weakness
References
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/magic-action-box/tags/2.17.2/lib/functions.php#L287 Product
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/ce9b908b-1388-41fb-915c-e4e29eaf57ed?source=cve Product, Third Party Advisory
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/magic-action-box/tags/2.17.2/lib/functions.php#L287 Product
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/ce9b908b-1388-41fb-915c-e4e29eaf57ed?source=cve Product, Third Party Advisory