CVE-2023-2168 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

The TaxoPress plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the Suggest Terms Title field in versions up to, and including, 3.6.4 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers with Editor+ permissions to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

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 None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

Vendors	Products
Taxopress	Taxopress

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:taxopress:taxopress:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*

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References

Link	Providers
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/simple-tags/trunk/inc/suggestterms-functions.php?rev=2743620#L151
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&new=2868795%40simple-tags%2Ftrunk&old=2774153%40simple-tags%2Ftrunk&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/1c051bfd-2754-4faf-8062-91752555166c?source=cve

History

Mon, 13 Jan 2025 17:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
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MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: Wordfence

Published: 2023-04-19T09:38:18.815Z

Updated: 2025-01-13T16:51:00.502Z

Reserved: 2023-04-18T20:37:54.193Z

Link: CVE-2023-2168

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-02T06:12:20.595Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2023-04-19T10:15:07.640

Modified: 2024-11-21T07:58:04.183

Link: CVE-2023-2168

Redhat

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