CVE-2023-4022

2023-09-1120:15:11

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web.nvd.nist.gov

herd effects

wordpress

stored xss

vulnerability

5.2.3

settings

high privilege users

admin

unfiltered_html

multisite

4.8 Medium

CVSS3

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

HIGH

User Interaction

REQUIRED

Scope

CHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

LOW

Integrity Impact

LOW

Availability Impact

NONE

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

0.0004 Low

EPSS

Percentile

14.0%

JSON

The Herd Effects WordPress plugin before 5.2.3 does not sanitise and escape some of its settings, which could allow high privilege users such as admin to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed (for example in multisite setup)