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CVE-2023-3169 (GCVE-0-2023-3169)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-09-11 19:46 – Updated: 2024-09-26 15:51
VLAI
Title
tagDiv Composer < 4.2 - Unauthenticated Stored XSS
Summary
The tagDiv Composer WordPress plugin before 4.2, used as a companion by the Newspaper and Newsmag themes from tagDiv, does not have authorisation in a REST route and does not validate as well as escape some parameters when outputting them back, which could allow unauthenticated users to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks.
Severity
6.1 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
SSVC
Exploitation: poc Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2024-09-26 15:47 UTC
CWE
Assigner
References
URL Tags
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/e6d8216d-ace4-48… exploitvdb-entrytechnical-description
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Unknown tagDiv Composer Affected: 0 , < 4.2 (custom)
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tagdiv tagdiv_composer Affected: 0 , < 4.2 (custom)
    cpe:2.3:a:tagdiv:tagdiv_composer:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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Credits
Truoc Phan WPScan
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