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CVE-2023-4944:
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation
Overview
The Awesome Weather Widget for WordPress plugin (versions up to 3.0.2) contains a Stored Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability (CVE-2023-4944) discovered in September 2023. The vulnerability exists in the 'awesome-weather' shortcode due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user-supplied attributes (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:R/S:C/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. The vulnerability stems from improper sanitization of user input in the awesome-weather shortcode implementation (NVD).
Impact
The vulnerability allows authenticated attackers with contributor-level permissions or higher to inject arbitrary web scripts into pages. These malicious scripts will execute whenever a user accesses the compromised page (NVD).
Mitigation and workarounds
Users should upgrade to a version newer than 3.0.2 of the Awesome Weather Widget plugin to address this vulnerability (NVD).
Additional resources
Source: This report was generated using AI
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