Vulnerability DatabaseCVE-2023-5140

CVE-2023-5140:
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation

Overview

The Bonus for Woo WordPress plugin before version 5.8.3 contains a Reflected Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability (CVE-2023-5140). The vulnerability was discovered by Enrico Marcolini and Claudio Marchesini, and was publicly disclosed on October 27, 2023. The issue affects the plugin's handling of parameters in admin pages, which could potentially be exploited against high-privilege users such as administrators (WPScan).

Technical details

The vulnerability stems from improper sanitization and escaping of certain parameters before they are output back in pages. This is classified as CWE-79 (Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation). The vulnerability has received a CVSS v3.1 base score of 6.1 (MEDIUM) with the vector string CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N (NVD).

Impact

The vulnerability could be exploited to execute cross-site scripting attacks against high-privilege users such as administrators. This could potentially lead to unauthorized actions being performed in the context of the administrator's session (WPScan).

Mitigation and workarounds

Users are advised to update their Bonus for Woo WordPress plugin to version 5.8.3 or later, which contains the fix for this vulnerability (WPScan).

Additional resources

Source: This report was generated using AI

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