CVE-2023-5057

Published Oct 16, 2023

Last updated a year ago

CVSS medium 5.4

Overview

Description: The ActivityPub WordPress plugin before 1.0.0 does not escape user metadata before outputting them in mentions, which could allow users with a role of Contributor and above to perform Stored XSS attacks
Source: contact@wpscan.com
NVD status: Modified

Risk scores

CVSS 3.1

Type: Primary
Base score: 5.4
Impact score: 2.7
Exploitability score: 2.3
Vector string: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Severity: MEDIUM

Hype score: Not currently trending

Configurations

[
  {
    "nodes": [
      {
        "negate": false,
        "cpeMatch": [
          {
            "criteria": "cpe:2.3:a:automattic:activitypub:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*",
            "vulnerable": true,
            "matchCriteriaId": "78ADABE4-21BE-4F20-BE6D-BB12EDBCD26F",
            "versionEndExcluding": "1.0.0"
          }
        ],
        "operator": "OR"
      }
    ]
  }
]

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