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CVE-2023-48771:
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation
Overview
A Reflected Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability was discovered in Bruno "Aesqe" Babic File Gallery WordPress plugin, affecting versions up to 1.8.5.4. The vulnerability was reported on July 23, 2023, by Le Ngoc Anh and was publicly disclosed on November 28, 2023 (Patchstack).
Technical details
The vulnerability is classified as CWE-79 (Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation). It has received varying CVSS v3.1 scores: NIST assigned a base score of 6.1 (Medium) with vector string CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N, while Patchstack rated it at 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 (NVD).
Impact
The vulnerability could allow malicious actors to inject malicious scripts, including redirects, advertisements, and other HTML payloads into the website, which would be executed when guests visit the site (Patchstack).
Mitigation and workarounds
Currently, there is no official fix available for this vulnerability. Patchstack has issued a virtual patch to mitigate this issue by blocking attacks until an official fix becomes available (Patchstack).
Additional resources
Source: This report was generated using AI
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