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).

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