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CVE-2023-4716

MEDIUM

6.4

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.

CVE Details

CVSS v3.1 Score6.4

SeverityMEDIUM

CVSS VectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Attack VectorNETWORK

ComplexityLOW

Privileges RequiredLOW

User InteractionNONE

Published9/22/2023

Last Modified4/8/2026

Sourcenvd

Honeypot Sightings0

Affected Products

davidlingren:media_library_assistant

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-79CWE-79

References

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/media-library-assistant/trunk/includes/class-mla-shortcode-support.php?rev=2955933#L1507(security@wordfence.com)

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/media-library-assistant/trunk/includes/class-mla-shortcode-support.php?rev=2955933#L1511(security@wordfence.com)

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/media-library-assistant/trunk/includes/class-mla-shortcode-support.php?rev=2955933#L1515(security@wordfence.com)

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/media-library-assistant/trunk/includes/class-mla-shortcode-support.php?rev=2955933#L1531(security@wordfence.com)

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/2963256/media-library-assistant(security@wordfence.com)

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/c5f6ae5d-7854-44c7-9fb8-efaa6e850d59?source=cve(security@wordfence.com)

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/media-library-assistant/trunk/includes/class-mla-shortcode-support.php?rev=2955933#L1507(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/media-library-assistant/trunk/includes/class-mla-shortcode-support.php?rev=2955933#L1511(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/media-library-assistant/trunk/includes/class-mla-shortcode-support.php?rev=2955933#L1515(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/media-library-assistant/trunk/includes/class-mla-shortcode-support.php?rev=2955933#L1531(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/2963256/media-library-assistant(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/c5f6ae5d-7854-44c7-9fb8-efaa6e850d59?source=cve(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

IOC Correlations

No correlations recorded

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