Molongui <= 4.6.19 — Authenticated (Administrator+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting
CVE-2023-39921Published · Updated Action summary
Affected: ≤4.6.19Update to 4.6.20 or newer
All remediation steps- Severity
- Medium4.4
- CVSS
- 4.4CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:NWhat does this vector mean?
AV:NAttack vector- Network
AC:HAttack complexity- High
PR:HPrivileges required- High
UI:NUser interaction- None
S:CScope- Changed
C:LConfidentiality- Low
I:LIntegrity- Low
A:NAvailability- 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?
Molongui Authorship – Author Boxes, Guest Authors & Co-Authors for WordPress molongui-authorship
- Affected≤ 4.6.19
- Patched in4.6.20
Update to 4.6.20 or newer.
You are affected if you run ≤ 4.6.19. Version 4.6.20 and later are not affected by this issue.
- Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under Molongui Authorship – Author Boxes, Guest Authors & Co-Authors for WordPress.
- No admin access? Run a passive check of your site. It reads public files only.
What to do
- Update to version 4.6.20, or a newer patched version
- Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
- Watch Molongui Authorship – Author Boxes, Guest Authors & Co-Authors for WordPress to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.
Advisory
Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to Abdullah Hussam.
The Author Box, Guest Author and Co-Authors for Your Posts – Molongui plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via admin settings in all versions up to, and including, 4.6.19 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with administrator-level permissions and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page. This only affects multi-site installations and installations where unfiltered_html has been disabled.
Exploits & references
Proof-of-concept & detection
No public proof-of-concept or detection template is known for this vulnerability.
Advisories & patches
- Advisorywordfence.com
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| High7.2 | Unauthenticated Stored DOM-Based Cross-Site Scripting via Comment href Attribute ≤5.2.12Update to 5.3.0 | CVE-2026-101920 | |
| Medium4.3 | Authenticated (Author+) Insecure Direct Object Reference ≤4.7.7Update to 4.7.8 | CVE-2024-30507 | |
| Medium5.5 | Authenticated (Author+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting ≤4.7.7Update to 4.7.8 | CVE-2024-29764 | |
| Medium5.3 | Information Exposure via ma_debug ≤4.7.4Update to 4.7.5 | CVE-2023-7014 | |
| Medium5.4 | Missing Authorization ≤4.7.3Update to 4.7.4 | CVE-2023-50876 |
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Timeline
CVE published
Severity medium, CVSS 4.4
Record last updated
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