CVE-2023-2708 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

The Video Gallery plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Reflected Cross-Site Scripting via the ‘search_term’ parameter in versions up to, and including, 1.0.10 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that execute if they can successfully trick a user into performing an action such as clicking on a link.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

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.

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

Vendors	Products
I13websolution	Video Gallery

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:i13websolution:video_gallery:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*

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References

Link	Providers
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/video-slider-with-thumbnails/tags/1.0.10/video-slider-with-thumbnails.php#L1103
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/video-slider-with-thumbnails/tags/1.0.11/video-slider-with-thumbnails.php#L1105
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/8cfbad9f-61ba-4216-9078-c1e7e809899a?source=cve

History

Wed, 05 Feb 2025 20:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: Wordfence

Published: 2023-05-16T02:04:27.089Z

Updated: 2025-02-05T19:45:22.594Z

Reserved: 2023-05-15T12:39:48.962Z

Link: CVE-2023-2708

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-02T06:33:04.314Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2023-05-16T03:15:09.063

Modified: 2024-11-21T07:59:07.890

Link: CVE-2023-2708

Redhat

No data.

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