Vulnerability DatabaseCVE-2023-2579

CVE-2023-2579:
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation

Overview

The InventoryPress WordPress plugin through version 1.7 contains a stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability identified as CVE-2023-2579. The vulnerability was discovered on April 21, 2023, and publicly disclosed on June 23, 2023. The issue affects the plugin's settings functionality, specifically impacting WordPress installations running InventoryPress version 1.7 and below (WPScan).

Technical details

The vulnerability stems from improper sanitization and escaping of certain plugin settings. It has been assigned a CVSS v3.1 base score of 5.4 (Medium) with the vector string CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N. The vulnerability requires user interaction and can be exploited by users with author-level privileges or higher (NVD).

Impact

When successfully exploited, this vulnerability allows authenticated users with author-level permissions or higher to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks. This could potentially lead to the theft of sensitive information such as cookies and credentials from other users who view the affected content (GitHub POC).

Mitigation and workarounds

No official fix has been released for this vulnerability as of the latest reports. Users are advised to consider implementing additional input validation and output encoding mechanisms, or to consider using alternative inventory management plugins until a patch is available (WPScan).

Additional resources

Source: This report was generated using AI

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