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CVE-2023-4944
The Awesome Weather Widget plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'awesome-weather' shortcode in versions up to, and including, …
Impact
The Awesome Weather Widget plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'awesome-weather' shortcode in versions up to, and including, 3.0.2 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.
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions |
|---|---|---|
| Awesome Weather Widget Project | Awesome Weather Widget | through 3.0.2 |
Weakness classification
References
- NVD record
- CVE.org record
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/awesome-weather/tags/3.0.2/awesome-weather.php#L117
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/awesome-weather/tags/3.0.2/awesome-weather.php#L133
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/3bf77988-370b-437f-83a0-18a147e3e087?source=cve
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/awesome-weather/tags/3.0.2/awesome-weather.php#L117
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/awesome-weather/tags/3.0.2/awesome-weather.php#L133
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/3bf77988-370b-437f-83a0-18a147e3e087?source=cve