CVE-2023-33325
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation

Overview

An unauthenticated Reflected Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability was discovered in the Teplitsa of social technologies Leyka plugin versions 3.30.1 and below for WordPress. The vulnerability was reported on May 22, 2023, by researcher thiennv (Patchstack).

Technical details

The vulnerability has been assigned CVE-2023-33325 and received a CVSS v3.1 base score of 6.1 (MEDIUM) from NIST with vector string CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N. Patchstack assigned a slightly higher CVSS score of 7.1 (HIGH) with vector string CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L. The vulnerability is classified as CWE-79: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation (NVD).

Impact

This vulnerability could allow malicious actors to inject malicious scripts, including redirects, advertisements, and other HTML payloads into the website, which would be executed when visitors access the site (Patchstack).

Mitigation and workarounds

The vulnerability has been fixed in version 3.30.2 of the Leyka plugin. Users are advised to update to version 3.30.2 or later to resolve the vulnerability. Additionally, Patchstack has issued a virtual patch to mitigate this issue by blocking attacks until users can update to a fixed version (Patchstack).

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