WordPress Vulnerabilities

WP 5.6-6.3.1 - Contributor+ Stored XSS via Navigation Block

Description

WordPress does not escape some of its Navigation block options before outputting them back in a page/post where the block is embed, which could allow users with the contributor role and above to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks

Affects WordPress

6.3.1
Fixed in WordPress 6.3.2
6.3
Fixed in WordPress 6.3.2
6.2.2
Fixed in WordPress 6.2.3
6.2.1
Fixed in WordPress 6.2.3
6.2
Fixed in WordPress 6.2.3
6.1.3
Fixed in WordPress 6.1.4
6.1.2
Fixed in WordPress 6.1.4
6.1.1
Fixed in WordPress 6.1.4
6.1
Fixed in WordPress 6.1.4
6.0.5
Fixed in WordPress 6.0.6
6.0.4
Fixed in WordPress 6.0.6
6.0.3
Fixed in WordPress 6.0.6
6.0.2
Fixed in WordPress 6.0.6
6.0.1
Fixed in WordPress 6.0.6
6.0
Fixed in WordPress 6.0.6
5.9.7
Fixed in WordPress 5.9.8
5.9.6
Fixed in WordPress 5.9.8
5.9.5
Fixed in WordPress 5.9.8
5.9.4
Fixed in WordPress 5.9.8
5.9.3
Fixed in WordPress 5.9.8
5.9.2
Fixed in WordPress 5.9.8
5.9.1
Fixed in WordPress 5.9.8
5.9
Fixed in WordPress 5.9.8

References

CVE
CVE-2023-38000
URL
https://wordpress.org/news/2023/10/wordpress-6-3-2-maintenance-and-security-release/

Classification

Type
XSS
OWASP top 10
A7: Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
CWE
CWE-79
CVSS
5.9 (medium)

Miscellaneous

Original Researcher
Rafie Muhammad, Edouard Lamoine
Verified
No
WPVDB ID
cd130bb3-8d04-4375-a89a-883af131ed3a

Timeline

Publicly Published
2023-10-12 (about 7 months ago)
Added
2023-10-13 (about 6 months ago)
Last Updated
2023-10-13 (about 6 months ago)

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