CVE-2023-4944 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

The Awesome Weather Widget for WordPress 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.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required Low

Scope Changed

Confidentiality Impact Low

Integrity Impact Low

Availability Impact None

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

Vendors	Products
Awesome Weather Widget Project	Awesome Weather Widget

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:awesome_weather_widget_project:awesome_weather_widget:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*

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References

Link	Providers
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/awesome-weather/tags/3.0.2/awesome-weather.php#L117
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/awesome-weather/tags/3.0.2/awesome-weather.php#L133
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/3bf77988-370b-437f-83a0-18a147e3e087?source=cve

History

Wed, 05 Feb 2025 20:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: Wordfence

Published: 2023-09-14T02:29:50.725Z

Updated: 2025-02-05T19:28:43.197Z

Reserved: 2023-09-13T14:07:45.522Z

Link: CVE-2023-4944

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-02T07:44:52.839Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2023-09-14T03:15:08.777

Modified: 2024-11-21T08:36:19.323

Link: CVE-2023-4944

Redhat

No data.

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