6.4
MEDIUM
CVE-2023-5063
Wordpress Widget Responsive for Youtube Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability
Description

The Widget Responsive for Youtube plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'youtube' shortcode in versions up to, and including, 1.6.1 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.

INFO

Published Date :

Sept. 20, 2023, 3:15 a.m.

Last Modified :

Nov. 7, 2023, 4:23 a.m.

Remotely Exploitable :

Yes !

Impact Score :

2.7

Exploitability Score :

3.1
Affected Products

The following products are affected by CVE-2023-5063 vulnerability. Even if cvefeed.io is aware of the exact versions of the products that are affected, the information is not represented in the table below.

ID Vendor Product Action
1 Stefanoai widget_responsive_for_youtube
References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    May. 14, 2024

    Action Type Old Value New Value
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Nov. 07, 2023

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Removed CWE Wordfence CWE-79
  • Initial Analysis by [email protected]

    Sep. 20, 2023

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added CVSS V3.1 NIST AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
    Changed Reference Type https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/youtube-widget-responsive/trunk/youtube-widget-responsive.php?rev=2905626#L246 No Types Assigned https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/youtube-widget-responsive/trunk/youtube-widget-responsive.php?rev=2905626#L246 Patch
    Changed Reference Type https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/2968766/youtube-widget-responsive#file1 No Types Assigned https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/2968766/youtube-widget-responsive#file1 Product
    Changed Reference Type https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/72daa533-8b17-420c-9b51-b5f72da2726c?source=cve No Types Assigned https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/72daa533-8b17-420c-9b51-b5f72da2726c?source=cve Patch, Third Party Advisory
    Added CPE Configuration OR *cpe:2.3:a:stefanoai:widget_responsive_for_youtube:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:* versions up to (including) 1.6.1
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CWE - Common Weakness Enumeration

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Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

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Exploit Prediction

EPSS is a daily estimate of the probability of exploitation activity being observed over the next 30 days.

0.06 }} 0.01%

score

0.27640

percentile

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