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Vulnerability DatabaseCVE-2023-4893
CVE-2023-4893:
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation
Overview
The Crayon Syntax Highlighter plugin for WordPress (CVE-2023-4893) contains a Server Side Request Forgery (SSRF) vulnerability in versions up to and including 2.8.4. The vulnerability was discovered in the 'crayon' shortcode implementation (NVD).
Technical details
The vulnerability has been assigned a CVSS v3.1 base score of 5.4 (Medium) by NIST with vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N, while Wordfence assessed it at 6.4 (Medium) with vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N (NVD).
Impact
The vulnerability allows authenticated attackers with contributor-level permissions or higher to make web requests to arbitrary locations originating from the web application. This can be exploited to query and modify information from internal services (NVD).
Exploitability
The vulnerability requires authentication with at least contributor-level permissions to exploit. The attack complexity is considered low, requiring no user interaction to execute (NVD).
Additional resources
Source: This report was generated using AI
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