CVE-2023-32103
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation

Overview

A Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability was discovered in the Theme Palace TP Education WordPress plugin versions 4.4 and below. The vulnerability was reported on April 26, 2023, and was publicly disclosed on May 3, 2023. This security issue affects authenticated users with contributor-level privileges or higher (Patchstack).

Technical details

The vulnerability is classified as a Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) issue, identified as CVE-2023-32103. It received a CVSS v3.1 base score of 5.4 (Medium) according to NIST's assessment with a vector string of CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N, while Patchstack assessed it at 6.5 (Medium) with a vector string of CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L. The vulnerability is categorized under CWE-79 (Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation) (NVD).

Impact

The vulnerability could allow malicious actors to inject harmful scripts, including redirects, advertisements, and other HTML payloads into the website. These injected scripts would be executed when visitors access the affected site. The software has been marked as potentially abandoned, as it hasn't received updates for over a year (Patchstack).

Exploitability

The vulnerability requires authentication with at least contributor-level privileges to exploit. It has been classified as having a low severity impact and is considered unlikely to be exploited (Patchstack).

Mitigation and workarounds

The vulnerability has been patched in version 4.5 of the TP Education plugin. Users are advised to update to version 4.5 or later to remediate this security issue. Given that the software appears to be abandoned, users should consider replacing it with an alternative solution (Patchstack).

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