What is CVE-2023-5085?

CVE-2023-5085 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Advanced Menu Widget Project, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 6.4/10. Published 2023-10-25.

How severe is CVE-2023-5085?

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

XSS in Advanced Menu Widget Project

CVE-2023-5085

The Advanced Menu Widget plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'advMenu' shortcode in versions up to, and including, 0.4.1 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.

Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)

EPSS: 0.004 (28.3th 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

Advanced_menu_widget_project Advanced_menu_widget
Johnnypea Advanced Menu Widget — versions 0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting

References

security@wordfence.com (Third Party Advisory)
security@wordfence.com (Patch)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2023-5085?: CVE-2023-5085 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Advanced Menu Widget Project, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 6.4/10. Published 2023-10-25.
How severe is CVE-2023-5085?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.4 out of 10.