CVE-2023-0368
Published: 19 June 2023
Summary
CVE-2023-0368 is a medium-severity Cross-site Scripting (CWE-79) vulnerability in Responsive Tabs For Wpbakery Page Builder Project Responsive Tabs For Wpbakery Page Builder. Its CVSS base score is 5.4 (Medium).
Operationally, ranked at the 30.0th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog; a public proof-of-concept is referenced.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2023-12429
Vulnerability details
The Responsive Tabs For WPBakery Page Builder (formerly Visual Composer) WordPress plugin through 1.1 does not validate and escape some of its shortcode attributes before outputting them back in a page/post where the shortcode is embed, which could allow users…
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with the contributor role and above to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks
- CWE(s)
Related Threats
No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.
Affected Assets
Mitigating Controls
Likely Mitigating Controls AI
Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.
Penetration testing submits XSS payloads to web applications, detecting cross-site scripting flaws for subsequent remediation.
Validates web inputs to reject script-related content that could produce XSS.
Output validation against expected content can reject or sanitize script content in generated web pages, reducing XSS exploitability.