CVE-2023-27439
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation

Overview

The vulnerability (CVE-2023-27439) is a Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability affecting the gl_SPICE New Adman WordPress plugin versions 1.6.8 and below. The vulnerability was discovered and reported by Rio Darmawan, and was publicly disclosed on March 3, 2023. The issue specifically affects high-privilege users such as administrators, even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed (for example in multisite setup) (Patchstack).

Technical details

The vulnerability stems from insufficient sanitization and escaping of some plugin settings. This security issue has been assigned a CVSS v3.1 base score of 4.8 (Medium) by NVD with the vector string CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N. Patchstack has assigned it a slightly higher CVSS score of 5.9 (Medium) with the vector string CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L. The vulnerability is classified under CWE-79 (Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation) (NVD).

Impact

The vulnerability could allow high-privilege users such as administrators to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks. This could enable malicious actors to inject arbitrary web scripts that would execute whenever a user accesses an affected page, potentially leading to the injection of malicious scripts, redirects, advertisements, and other HTML payloads (WPScan).

Mitigation and workarounds

As of the latest reports, there is no known official fix available for this vulnerability. Users of the affected plugin versions should consider implementing additional security measures or potentially removing the plugin until a patch is released (Patchstack).

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