CVE-2023-4840
CVSS 3.1 Score 7.8 of 10 (high)
Details
Published Sep 12, 2023
Updated: Nov 7, 2023
CWE ID 190
Summary
CVE-2023-4840 is a Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability affecting the MapPress Maps for WordPress plugin for WordPress. This issue, present in versions up to 2.88.4, stems from insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user-supplied attributes in the 'mappress' shortcode. Consequently, authenticated attackers with contributor-level access or higher can inject malicious web scripts, which will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.
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