6.4Medium

CVE-2023-5062WordPress Charts <= 0.7.0 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Shortcode

webfactory WordPress Charts Published: 2023-09-20 05:31 (3 years ago)

Description

The WordPress Charts plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'wp_charts' shortcode in versions up to, and including, 0.7.0 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.

Weakness (CWE): CWE-79

Data: CVE.org, NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST EPSS, Ubuntu. Published as the sources state it, in English.

Affected products and versions

Vendor	Product	Versions
webfactory	WordPress Charts	≤ 0.7.0

References and patches

CVSS score

6.4Medium

Source: Wordfence · CVSS 3.1

Attack vector: Network
Attack complexity: Low
Privileges required: Low
User interaction: None
Scope: Changed
Confidentiality: Low
Integrity: Low
Availability: None

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

EPSS (chance of exploitation in 30 days)

0.51%

higher than 44% of all CVEs

CISA assessment (SSVC)

Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical impact: partial

Timeline

ID reserved2023-09-19
Published2023-09-20 05:31
Reached IP-DB2026-10-24 23:52
Last updated2026-04-08 19:44

Assigned by (CNA): Wordfence

View at source: CVE.org · NVD

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