Vulnerabilities > CVE-2023-2170 - Unspecified vulnerability in Taxopress
Attack vector
NETWORK Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
HIGH Confidentiality impact
LOW Integrity impact
LOW Availability impact
NONE Summary
The TaxoPress plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the Related Posts functionality in versions up to, and including, 3.6.4 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers with Editor+ permissions to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.
Vulnerable Configurations
References
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/simple-tags/trunk/inc/related-posts-functions.php?rev=2674563#L155
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&new=2868795%40simple-tags%2Ftrunk&old=2774153%40simple-tags%2Ftrunk&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/e98ed932-4e4c-4127-ae72-500e2a34f371?source=cve
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/simple-tags/trunk/inc/related-posts-functions.php?rev=2674563#L155
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/e98ed932-4e4c-4127-ae72-500e2a34f371?source=cve
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&new=2868795%40simple-tags%2Ftrunk&old=2774153%40simple-tags%2Ftrunk&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=