CVE-2023-5163 (GCVE-0-2023-5163)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-11-22 15:33 – Updated: 2026-04-08 17:20
VLAI
Title
Weather Atlas Widget <= 1.2.1 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Shortcode
Summary
The Weather Atlas Widget plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'shortcode-weather-atlas' shortcode in versions up to, and including, 1.2.1 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.
Severity
6.4 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CWE
  • CWE-79 - Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
weatheratlas Weather Atlas Widget Affected: 0 , ≤ 1.2.1 (semver)
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Credits
István Márton
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