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CVE-2023-5665:
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation
Overview
CVE-2023-5665 affects the Payment Forms for Paystack plugin for WordPress in versions up to and including 3.4.1. The vulnerability was discovered and reported by Wordfence, with the initial disclosure on February 7, 2024. This security issue is classified as a Stored Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability that exists in the plugin's shortcodes due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user-supplied attributes (NVD).
Technical details
The vulnerability is categorized as CWE-79 (Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation) and has received a CVSS v3.1 base score of 5.4 (Medium) from NIST with the vector string CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N. Wordfence assigned a slightly higher CVSS score of 6.4 (Medium) with the vector string 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 and above permissions to inject arbitrary web scripts into pages. These malicious scripts will execute whenever a user accesses the compromised page (NVD).
Additional resources
Source: This report was generated using AI
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