What is CVE-2023-4944?

CVE-2023-4944 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Awesome Weather Widget Project, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 6.4/10. Published 2023-09-14.

How severe is CVE-2023-4944?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.4 out of 10.

Is CVE-2023-4944 known to be exploited?

1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

XSS in Awesome Weather Widget Project

CVE-2023-4944

The Awesome Weather Widget plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'awesome-weather' shortcode in versions up to, and including, 3.0.2 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.

Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)

EPSS: 0.004 (34.3th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.4 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N.

Affected products

Awesome_weather_widget_project Awesome_weather_widget
Richardgabriel Awesome Weather Widget — versions 0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting

Public proof-of-concept exploits

20142995/nuclei-templates

References

security@wordfence.com (Third Party Advisory)
security@wordfence.com (Issue Tracking)
security@wordfence.com (Issue Tracking)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2023-4944?: CVE-2023-4944 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Awesome Weather Widget Project, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 6.4/10. Published 2023-09-14.
How severe is CVE-2023-4944?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.4 out of 10.
Is CVE-2023-4944 known to be exploited?: 1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.