CVE-2023-3388

HIGHNuclei

Beautiful Cookie Consent Banner <= 2.10.1 - Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting

Title source: CVE List
STIX 2.1 vulnerability

Record summary

CVE-2023-3388 has a selected CVSS score of 7.2 (high); EIP currently links 1 Nuclei template.

Description

The Beautiful Cookie Consent Banner for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'nsc_bar_content_href' parameter in versions up to, and including, 2.10.1 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page. A partial patch was made available in 2.10.1 and the issue was fully patched in 2.10.2.

Description source: CVE List

Exploitation context

Known exploitation

VulnCheck KEV
Listed · Feb 1, 2023 · VulnCheck
Reported exploitation
Observed · VulnCheck

Available material

Nuclei templates
1

CISA SSVC decision

ExploitationNone
AutomatableYes
Technical impactPartial

CISA Coordinator · SSVC 2.0.3 · Evaluated Feb 5, 2025 · Source: CVE List

Affected products and versions

2
ProductSourceVersion range

beautiful_cookie_consent_banner

Browse beautiful-cookie-banner / beautiful_cookie_consent_banner
VulnCheckVersion data not supplied

Beautiful Cookie Consent Banner

Browse nikelschubert / Beautiful Cookie Consent Banner

Default status: unaffected

CVE ListThrough 2.10.1affected

Nuclei templates

1
ProjectDiscoveryHIGHBeautiful Cookie Consent Banner < 2.10.2 - Cross-Site ScriptingCVSS 7.2

The Beautiful Cookie Consent Banner for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'nsc_bar_content_href' parameter in versions up to, and including, 2.10.1 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page. A partial patch was made available in 2.10.1 and the issue was fully patched in 2.10.2.

Impact

Attackers can execute arbitrary scripts in users' browsers, potentially leading to session hijacking, defacement, or redirection.

Remediation

Update to version 2.10.2 or later.

WeaknessesCWE-79
Authorsdaffainfo
Template tagscvecve2023wordpresswpwp-pluginbeautiful-cookie-bannerxssvkev
CVSS vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CPE: cpe:2.3:a:beautiful-cookie-banner:beautiful_cookie_consent_banner:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=2857982%40beautiful-and-responsive-cookie-consent&new=2857982%40beautiful-and-responsive-cookie-consent&sfp_email=&sfph_mail= https://www.wordfence.com/blog/2023/05/wordfence-firewall-blocks-bizarre-large-scale-xss-campaign/ https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/542a4079-b1a2-49bc-9ddd-ba7978c9992e?source=cve https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-3388

Source: ProjectDiscovery

References

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