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CVE-2023-5234: 
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation

Overview

The Related Products for WooCommerce plugin for WordPress (versions up to and including 3.3.15) contains a Stored Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability (CVE-2023-5234) discovered in November 2023. The vulnerability exists in the 'woo-related' shortcode due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user-supplied attributes (NVD).

Technical details

The vulnerability is classified as a Stored Cross-Site Scripting (CWE-79) issue with a CVSS v3.1 base score of 5.4 (Medium) according to NIST, and 6.4 (Medium) according to Wordfence. The vulnerability vector is CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N, indicating network accessibility, low attack complexity, required privileges, user interaction, and potential for confidentiality and integrity impacts (NVD).

Impact

When exploited, this vulnerability allows authenticated attackers with contributor-level and above permissions to inject arbitrary web scripts into pages. These malicious scripts will execute whenever a user accesses the compromised page (NVD).

Mitigation and workarounds

A patch has been released to address this vulnerability. Users should update their Related Products for WooCommerce plugin to a version newer than 3.3.15 (Wordpress Patch).

Additional resources

Source: This report was generated using AI

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