Vulnerability DatabaseCVE-2023-40335

CVE-2023-40335:
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation

Overview

A Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability was discovered in the Cleverwise Daily Quotes WordPress plugin, developed by Jeremy O'Connell. The vulnerability affects all versions up to and including 3.2, allowing attackers to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) attacks. The vulnerability was reported on March 26, 2023, and publicly disclosed on August 17, 2023 (Patchstack Database).

Technical details

The vulnerability has been assigned a CVSS v3.1 base score of 7.1 (High) by Patchstack and 6.1 (Medium) by NIST, with the vector string CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N. The vulnerability is classified under CWE-352 (Cross-Site Request Forgery) and allows for stored XSS attacks through CSRF (NVD).

Impact

The vulnerability could allow malicious actors to inject malicious scripts, including redirects, advertisements, and other HTML payloads into the website. These injected scripts would be executed when visitors access the affected site, potentially compromising user data and website integrity (Patchstack Database).

Mitigation and workarounds

No official fix is currently available for this vulnerability. However, Patchstack has issued a virtual patch to mitigate the issue by blocking potential attacks until an official fix becomes available (Patchstack Database).

Additional resources

Source: This report was generated using AI

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