CVE-2023-2309

MEDIUMNuclei

wpForo Forum < 2.1.9 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting

Title source: CVE List
STIX 2.1 vulnerability

Record summary

CVE-2023-2309 has a selected CVSS score of 6.1 (medium); EIP currently links 1 Nuclei template.

Description

The wpForo Forum WordPress plugin before 2.1.9 does not escape some request parameters while in debug mode, leading to a Reflected Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability.

Description source: CVE List

Exploitation context

Available material

Nuclei templates
1

CISA SSVC decision

ExploitationPoC
AutomatableNo
Technical impactPartial

CISA Coordinator · SSVC 2.0.3 · Evaluated Oct 24, 2024 · Source: CVE List

Affected products and versions

1
ProductSourceVersion range

wpForo Forum

Default status: unaffected

CVE ListBefore 2.1.9affected

Nuclei templates

1
ProjectDiscoveryMEDIUMwpForo Forum <= 2.1.8 - Cross-Site ScriptingCVSS 6.1

The wpForo Forum plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Reflected Cross-Site Scripting via the ‘wpforo_debug’ function in versions up to, and including, 2.1.8 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that execute if they can successfully trick a user into performing an action such as clicking on a link.

Impact

Unauthenticated attackers can inject malicious JavaScript through the wpforo_debug function to steal WordPress administrator session cookies when they view crafted links.

Remediation

Fixed in 2.1.9

Authorss4e-io
Template tagscvecve2023wordpresswpforowpscanwp-pluginwpxssvuln
CVSS vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CPE: cpe:2.3:a:gvectors:wpforo_forum:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-2309 https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/1b3f4558-ea41-4749-9aa2-d3971fc9ca0d/ https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/wordpress-plugins/wpforo/wpforo-forum-218-reflected-cross-site-scripting-via-wpforo-debug https://github.com/fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feeds

Source: ProjectDiscovery

References

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