Stored cross-site scripting in Horizontal scrolling announcement plugin for WordPress



Published: 2023-09-19
Risk Low
Patch available NO
Number of vulnerabilities 1
CVE-ID CVE-2023-5001
CWE-ID CWE-79
Exploitation vector Network
Public exploit N/A
Vulnerable software
Subscribe 		Horizontal scrolling announcement
Web applications / Modules and components for CMS

Vendor Gopi Ramasamy

Security Bulletin

This security bulletin contains one low risk vulnerability.

1) Stored cross-site scripting

EUVDB-ID: #VU80893

Risk: Low

CVSSv3.1:

CVE-ID: CVE-2023-5001

CWE-ID: CWE-79 - Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

Exploit availability: No

Description

The disclosed vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks.

The vulnerability exists due to insufficient sanitization of user-supplied data in the "horizontal-scrolling" shortcode. A remote user can inject and execute arbitrary HTML and script code in user's browser in context of vulnerable website.

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may allow a remote attacker to steal potentially sensitive information, change appearance of the web page, perform phishing and drive-by-download attacks.

Mitigation

Cybersecurity Help is currently unaware of any official solution to address this vulnerability.

Vulnerable software versions

Horizontal scrolling announcement: 9.2

CPE2.3 External links

http://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/horizontal-scrolling-announcement/trunk/horizontal-scrolling-announcement.php#L389
http://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/d4f60e8c-2745-4930-9101-914bd73c6e1c?source=cve


Q & A

Can this vulnerability be exploited remotely?

Is there known malware, which exploits this vulnerability?



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