What is CVE-2023-6854?

CVE-2023-6854 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Breakdance, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 6.4/10. Published 2024-05-06.

How severe is CVE-2023-6854?

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

XSS in Breakdance

CVE-2023-6854

The Breakdance plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's custom postmeta output in all versions up to, and including, 1.7.0 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied post meta fields. 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: 0.003 (24.9th 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

Breakdance — versions 0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting

References

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2023-6854?: CVE-2023-6854 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Breakdance, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 6.4/10. Published 2024-05-06.
How severe is CVE-2023-6854?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.4 out of 10.