Herd Effects <= 5.2.2 — Authenticated (Administrator+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting
CVE-2023-4022Published · Updated Action summary
Affected: <5.2.3Update to 5.2.3 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
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Am I affected?
Social Proof Popups & Real-Time Notifications – Herd Effects mwp-herd-effect
- Affected< 5.2.3
- Patched in5.2.3
Update to 5.2.3 or newer.
You are affected if you run < 5.2.3. Version 5.2.3 and later are not affected by this issue.
- Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under Social Proof Popups & Real-Time Notifications – Herd Effects.
- No admin access? Run a passive check of your site. It reads public files only.
What to do
- Update to version 5.2.3, or a newer patched version
- Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
- Watch Social Proof Popups & Real-Time Notifications – Herd Effects to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.
Advisory
Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to Bob Matyas.
The Herd Effects plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via admin settings in versions up to, and including, 5.2.2 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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Timeline
CVE published
Severity medium, CVSS 4.4
Record last updated
Sources & licenses
Wordfence record- Vulnerability data
- Wordfence Intelligence. [object Object] Licensed under the CC BY-SA 4.0.
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