CVE-2023-5343 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

The Popup box WordPress plugin before 3.7.9 does not sanitise and escape some of its settings, which could allow high privilege users such as admin to perform Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when unfiltered_html is disallowed.

Published: 2023-11-20

Score: 4.8 Medium

EPSS: < 1% Very Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

Unknown

Popup box

unaffected

Version	Status	Constraints
`0`	affected	< 3.7.9

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:ays-pro:popup_box:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*

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Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

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Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2023-57660	The Popup box WordPress plugin before 3.7.9 does not sanitise and escape some of its settings, which could allow high privilege users such as admin to perform Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when unfiltered_html is disallowed.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required High

Scope Changed

Confidentiality Impact Low

Integrity Impact Low

Availability Impact None

User Interaction Required

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00451.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/74613b38-48f2-43d5-bae5-25c89ba7db6e

History

No history.

Subscriptions

Ays-pro Popup Box

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: WPScan

Published: 2023-11-20T18:55:12.772Z

Updated: 2024-09-09T18:15:08.326Z

Reserved: 2023-10-02T16:46:08.810Z

Link: CVE-2023-5343

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-02T07:52:08.653Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2023-11-20T19:15:09.770

Modified: 2026-06-17T06:48:23.080

Link: CVE-2023-5343

Redhat

No data.

OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

CWE-79
Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

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