CVE-2023-5669 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

The Featured Image Caption plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's shortcode and post meta in all versions up to, and including, 0.8.10 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
Christiaanconover	Featured Image Caption

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:christiaanconover:featured_image_caption:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*

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References

Link	Providers
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/featured-image-caption/trunk/classes/MetaBox.php?rev=2300545#L91
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/featured-image-caption/trunk/classes/MetaBox.php?rev=2300545#L92
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&new=2998182%40featured-image-caption%2Ftrunk&old=2486227%40featured-image-caption%2Ftrunk&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/0c43a88c-6374-414f-97ae-26ba15d75cdc?source=cve

History

Wed, 05 Feb 2025 19:15:00 +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: 2023-11-07T11:31:05.515Z

Updated: 2025-02-05T18:50:34.898Z

Reserved: 2023-10-19T16:12:46.958Z

Link: CVE-2023-5669

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-02T08:07:32.274Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2023-11-07T12:15:13.617

Modified: 2024-11-21T08:42:14.390

Link: CVE-2023-5669

Redhat

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