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Guest Author <= 2.3 — Authenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting

0b7d7b64-8194-4b81-83f5-1f3b23109455Published · Updated

Action summary

Affected: ≤2.3Update to 2.4 or newer

All remediation steps
Watch plugin
Severity
Medium6.4
CVSS
6.4
CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
What does this vector mean?
AV:N Attack vector
Network
AC:L Attack complexity
Low
PR:L Privileges required
Low
UI:N User interaction
None
S:C Scope
Changed
C:L Confidentiality
Low
I:L Integrity
Low
A:N Availability
None
Weakness
CWE-79 Cross-Site Scripting
Required access
Unknown
Exploit prediction (EPSS)
No score
CISA KEV
Not listed
On this page8

Am I affected?

Guest Author guest-author

  1. Affected≤ 2.3
  2. Patched in2.4

Update to 2.4 or newer.

You are affected if you run ≤ 2.3. Version 2.4 and later are not affected by this issue.

  • Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under Guest Author.
  • No admin access? Run a passive check of your site. It reads public files only.

What to do

  1. Update to version 2.4, or a newer patched version
  2. Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
  3. Watch Guest Author to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.

Advisory

Source description from Wordfence Intelligence.

The Guest Author plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's guest author parameters in all versions up to, and including, 2.3 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with contributor-level access to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

Exploits & references

Proof-of-concept & detection

No public proof-of-concept or detection template is known for this vulnerability.

Advisories & patches

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SeverityVulnerabilityCVEPublished
Medium6.4Authenticated (Author+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting
≤2.3Update to 2.4
CVE-2023-49747

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Timeline

  1. CVE published

    Severity medium, CVSS 6.4

  2. Record last updated

Sources & licenses

Vulnerability data
Wordfence Intelligence. [object Object] Licensed under the CC BY-SA 4.0.
CVSS / CWE
National Vulnerability Database (NVD), shown unmodified. This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.
VulnCrest content
Summary, remediation guidance and page layout © VulnCrest. Not sourced from NVD.

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