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CVE-2023-6497:
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation
Overview
The WordPress Simple Shopping Cart plugin for WordPress contains a Stored Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability (CVE-2023-6497) in versions up to and including 4.7.1. The vulnerability was discovered in the automatic redirect URL setting and was disclosed on January 26, 2024 (NVD).
Technical details
The vulnerability stems from insufficient input sanitization and output escaping in the automatic redirect URL setting. It has been assigned a CVSS v3.1 base score of 4.8 (Medium) by NVD with vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N, while Wordfence assigned a score of 4.4 (Medium) with vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N (NVD).
Impact
The vulnerability affects multi-site installations and installations where unfiltered_html has been disabled. When exploited, it allows authenticated attackers with administrator-level permissions to inject arbitrary web scripts that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page (NVD).
Mitigation and workarounds
Users should update their WordPress Simple Shopping Cart plugin to a version newer than 4.7.1 to address this vulnerability (NVD).
Additional resources
Source: This report was generated using AI
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