CVE-2023-5062
Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-79
Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
Publication date:
20/09/2023
Last modified:
08/04/2026
Description
The WordPress Charts plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'wp_charts' shortcode in versions up to, and including, 0.7.0 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
Base Score 3.x
6.40
Severity 3.x
MEDIUM
Vulnerable products and versions
| CPE | From | Up to |
|---|---|---|
| cpe:2.3:a:wpartisan:wordpress_charts:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:* | 0.7.0 (including) |
To consult the complete list of CPE names with products and versions, see this page
References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-charts/tags/0.7.0/wordpress_charts_js.php#L223
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-charts/tags/0.7.0/wordpress_charts_js.php#L229
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/2de2d2c5-1373-45b6-93a0-575713226669?source=cve
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-charts/tags/0.7.0/wordpress_charts_js.php#L223
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-charts/tags/0.7.0/wordpress_charts_js.php#L229
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/2de2d2c5-1373-45b6-93a0-575713226669?source=cve