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CVE-2023-23977: 
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation

Overview

A Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability was discovered in Team Heateor WordPress Social Comments Plugin for Vkontakte Comments and Disqus Comments plugin versions 1.6.1 and below. The vulnerability was reported on January 7, 2023, and published on January 20, 2023, by security researcher Rafshanzani Suhada (Patchstack).

Technical details

The vulnerability has been assigned CVE-2023-23977 and received a CVSS v3.1 Base Score of 5.4 (Medium) from NIST with a vector string of CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N. Patchstack assigned a slightly higher CVSS score of 6.5 (Medium). The vulnerability requires contributor-level privileges or higher to exploit (NVD).

Impact

This vulnerability could allow a malicious actor to inject malicious scripts, such as redirects, advertisements, and other HTML payloads into the website which will be executed when guests visit the site (Patchstack).

Mitigation and workarounds

The vulnerability has been fixed in version 1.6.2 of the plugin. Users are advised to update to version 1.6.2 or later to remove the vulnerability. Patchstack users can enable auto-update for vulnerable plugins (Patchstack).

Additional resources

Source: This report was generated using AI

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