CVE-2023-23710
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation

Overview

CVE-2023-23710 is a Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability affecting the miniOrange WordPress Social Login and Register plugin (versions <= 7.5.14). The vulnerability was discovered on January 18, 2023, and publicly disclosed on February 15, 2023. This security issue affects WordPress installations using the vulnerable plugin versions that handle social login functionality for platforms including Discord, Google, Twitter, and LinkedIn (Patchstack).

Technical details

The vulnerability is classified as a Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) issue that requires administrator-level privileges to exploit. It has been assigned a CVSS v3.1 base score of 4.8 (Medium) with the vector string CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N. The vulnerability is tracked under CWE-79 (Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation) (NVD).

Impact

This vulnerability could allow a malicious actor with administrative access to inject malicious scripts, including redirects, advertisements, and other HTML payloads into the website. These injected scripts would then be executed when visitors access the affected site (Patchstack).

Mitigation and workarounds

The vulnerability has been patched in version 7.6.0 of the plugin. Users are advised to update to version 7.6.0 or later to remove the vulnerability. Due to the low severity impact and unlikely exploitation potential, this security issue is considered a low priority for patching (Patchstack).

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