CVE-2023-4716 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

The Media Library Assistant plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'mla_gallery' shortcode in versions up to, and including, 3.10 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.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required Low

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
Davidlingren	Media Library Assistant

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:davidlingren:media_library_assistant:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*

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References

Link	Providers
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/media-library-assistant/trunk/includes/class-mla-shortcode-support.php?rev=2955933#L1507
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/media-library-assistant/trunk/includes/class-mla-shortcode-support.php?rev=2955933#L1511
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/media-library-assistant/trunk/includes/class-mla-shortcode-support.php?rev=2955933#L1515
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/media-library-assistant/trunk/includes/class-mla-shortcode-support.php?rev=2955933#L1531
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/2963256/media-library-assistant
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/c5f6ae5d-7854-44c7-9fb8-efaa6e850d59?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: 2023-09-22T05:31:26.394Z

Updated: 2025-02-05T19:27:10.166Z

Reserved: 2023-09-01T14:20:20.163Z

Link: CVE-2023-4716

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-02T07:37:59.477Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2023-09-22T06:15:11.007

Modified: 2024-11-21T08:35:49.137

Link: CVE-2023-4716

Redhat

No data.

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