CVE-2023-5163
The Weather Atlas Widget plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'shortcode-weather-atlas' shortcode in versions up to, and including, 1.2.1 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied…
Does this matter?
Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.57%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.
Description
The Weather Atlas Widget plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'shortcode-weather-atlas' shortcode in versions up to, and including, 1.2.1 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers with contributor-level and above permissions to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.
- CVSS 3.1
- 5.4 MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
- EPSS
- 0.57% probability · 45th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-79
- Affected
- weather-atlas/weather atlas
- Source
- security@wordfence.com
References
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/weather-atlas/tags/1.2.1/includes/class-weather-atlas.php#L838Patch
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/weather-atlas/tags/1.2.1/includes/class-weather-atlas.php#L844Patch
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/weather-atlas/tags/1.2.1/includes/class-weather-atlas.php#L845Patch
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/weather-atlas/tags/1.2.1/includes/class-weather-atlas.php#L858Patch
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/weather-atlas/tags/1.2.1/includes/class-weather-atlas.php#L860Patch
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/weather-atlas/trunk/includes/class-weather-atlas.php?rev=3000811#L326
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/c2324caa-f804-4f76-9d08-8951fbee4669?source=cveThird Party Advisory
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/weather-atlas/tags/1.2.1/includes/class-weather-atlas.php#L838Patch
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/weather-atlas/tags/1.2.1/includes/class-weather-atlas.php#L844Patch
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/weather-atlas/tags/1.2.1/includes/class-weather-atlas.php#L845Patch
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/weather-atlas/tags/1.2.1/includes/class-weather-atlas.php#L858Patch
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/weather-atlas/tags/1.2.1/includes/class-weather-atlas.php#L860Patch
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/c2324caa-f804-4f76-9d08-8951fbee4669?source=cveThird Party Advisory
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.