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CVE-2023-5432

MEDIUM

6.4

Description

The Jquery news ticker plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'jquery-news-ticker' shortcode in versions up to, and including, 3.1 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

Published12/19/2023

Last Modified4/8/2026

Sourcenvd

Honeypot Sightings0

Affected Products

gopiplus:jquery_news_ticker

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-79CWE-79

References

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/jquery-news-ticker/trunk/jquery-news-ticker.php?rev=2827068#L124(security@wordfence.com)

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3010828/jquery-news-ticker(security@wordfence.com)

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/d22d9414-2df9-4528-a426-dce6e83f8d44?source=cve(security@wordfence.com)

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/jquery-news-ticker/trunk/jquery-news-ticker.php?rev=2827068#L124(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3010828/jquery-news-ticker(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/d22d9414-2df9-4528-a426-dce6e83f8d44?source=cve(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

IOC Correlations

No correlations recorded

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