Staff / Employee Business Directory for Active Directory <= 1.2.1 — Insufficient Escaping of Stored LDAP Values
CVE-2023-4757Published · Updated Action summary
Affected: ≤1.2.2Update to 1.2.3 or newer
All remediation steps- Severity
- Medium5.4
- CVSS
- 5.4CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:NWhat does this vector mean?
AV:NAttack vector- Network
AC:LAttack complexity- Low
PR:LPrivileges required- Low
UI:NUser interaction- None
S:UScope- Unchanged
C:LConfidentiality- Low
I:LIntegrity- Low
A:NAvailability- None
- Required access
- Unknown
- Exploit prediction (EPSS)
- No score
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
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Am I affected?
Staff/Employee Business Directory for Active Directory ldap-ad-staff-employee-directory-search
- Affected≤ 1.2.2
- Patched in1.2.3
Update to 1.2.3 or newer.
You are affected if you run ≤ 1.2.2. Version 1.2.3 and later are not affected by this issue.
- Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under Staff/Employee Business Directory for Active Directory.
- No admin access? Run a passive check of your site. It reads public files only.
What to do
- Update to version 1.2.3, or a newer patched version
- Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
- Watch Staff/Employee Business Directory for Active Directory to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.
Advisory
Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to Pedro José Navas Pérez.
The Staff / Employee Business Directory for Active Directory plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to improper LDAP value escaping in versions up to, and including, 1.2.1. This is due to insufficient escaping on the supplied $user_field_data value. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers with access to edit their LDAP entries to inject malicious JavaScript that will access when a user accesses a page containing the data.
Exploits & references
Proof-of-concept & detection
No public proof-of-concept or detection template is known for this vulnerability.
Advisories & patches
- Advisorywordfence.com
Related CVEs
More in Staff/Employee Business Directory for Active Directory
All 2| Severity | Vulnerability | CVE | Published |
|---|---|---|---|
| Low2.2 | Authenticated (Admin+) LDAP Passback ≤1.2.3Update to 1.3 | CVE-2023-4505 |
- Low2.2Authenticated (Admin+) LDAP Passback
≤1.2.3Update to 1.3
Timeline
CVE published
Severity medium, CVSS 5.4
Record last updated
Sources & licenses
Wordfence record- Vulnerability data
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- CVSS / CWE
- National Vulnerability Database (NVD), shown unmodified. This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.
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