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CVE-2023-4944

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-79 Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
Publication date:
14/09/2023
Last modified:
08/04/2026

Description

The Awesome Weather Widget plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'awesome-weather' shortcode in versions up to, and including, 3.0.2 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.

Impact

Vector 3.x
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N CVSS v3.1 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 6.40 MEDIUM
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Privileges Required (PR): Low
User Interaction (UI): None
Scope (S): Changed
Confidentiality (C): Low
Integrity (I): Low
Availability (A): None

Base Score 3.x
6.40
Severity 3.x
MEDIUM

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:a:awesome_weather_widget_project:awesome_weather_widget:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:* 3.0.2 (including)

To consult the complete list of CPE names with products and versions, see this page


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