CVE-2023-47227
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation

Overview

A Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability was discovered in the Web-Settler Social Feed | All social media in one place WordPress plugin versions 1.5.4.6 and below. The vulnerability was reported on January 21, 2023, by researcher yuyudhn and was officially published on November 3, 2023. This security issue requires administrator-level authentication to exploit (Patchstack).

Technical details

The vulnerability has been assigned CVE-2023-47227 and is classified as CWE-79 (Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation). It received a CVSS v3.1 base score of 4.8 (Medium) with the vector string CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N, indicating network accessibility, low attack complexity, high privileges required, and user interaction needed for exploitation (NVD).

Impact

The vulnerability could allow a malicious actor with administrator privileges to inject malicious scripts, including redirects, advertisements, and other HTML payloads into the website. These injected scripts would then be executed when visitors access the affected site (Patchstack).

Mitigation and workarounds

As of the vulnerability disclosure, no official fix has been made available for this security issue. Given the low severity impact and unlikely exploitation potential, no immediate mitigation steps have been recommended (Patchstack).

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