What is CVE-2023-6497?

CVE-2023-6497 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Mra13 Simple Shopping Cart, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 4.4/10. Published 2024-01-27.

How severe is CVE-2023-6497?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.4 out of 10.

Is CVE-2023-6497 known to be exploited?

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

XSS in Mra13 Simple Shopping Cart

CVE-2023-6497

The WordPress Simple Shopping Cart plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the automatic redirect URL setting in all versions up to and including 4.7.1 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with administrator-level permissions and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page. This only affects multi-site installations and installations where unfiltered_html has been disabled.

Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)

EPSS: 0.003 (22.7th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 4.4 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N.

Affected products

Mra13 Simple Shopping Cart — versions 0
Tipsandtricks-hq Wordpress_simple_paypal_shopping_cart

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting

Public proof-of-concept exploits

20142995/nuclei-templates

References

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

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2023-6497?: CVE-2023-6497 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Mra13 Simple Shopping Cart, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 4.4/10. Published 2024-01-27.
How severe is CVE-2023-6497?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.4 out of 10.
Is CVE-2023-6497 known to be exploited?: 1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.