CVE-2023-6807
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation

Overview

The GeneratePress Premium plugin for WordPress contains a Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability (CVE-2023-6807) in all versions up to and including 2.3.2. The vulnerability exists in the plugin's custom meta output functionality due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user-supplied attributes (NVD).

Technical details

The vulnerability is classified as CWE-79 (Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation). It has received a CVSS v3.1 base score of 5.4 (MEDIUM) from NIST with vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N, while Wordfence assigned a slightly higher score of 6.4 (MEDIUM) with vector 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 permissions or higher to inject arbitrary web scripts into pages. These malicious scripts will execute whenever a user accesses an affected page, potentially leading to data theft or manipulation of user sessions (NVD).

Mitigation and workarounds

Users should update their GeneratePress Premium plugin to a version newer than 2.3.2 to address this vulnerability. The issue was fixed in a security release that properly implements input sanitization and output escaping for user-supplied attributes (GeneratePress Changelog).

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