CVE-2023-5658

medium

Description

The WP MapIt plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's 'wp_mapit' shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 2.7.1 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.

References

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/7ef6f598-e1a7-4036-9485-1aad0416349a?source=cve

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-mapit/trunk/wp_mapit/classes/class-wp-mapit-multipin-map.php?rev=3005523#L184

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-mapit/tags/2.7.1/wp_mapit/classes/class.wp_mapit_map.php#L235

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2023-11-07

Updated: 2026-04-08

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:N

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.4

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00116