Cyber Resilience

CVE-2023-0429

MediumPublic PoC

Published: 21 February 2023

Published
21 February 2023
Modified
12 March 2025
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score v3.1 4.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
EPSS Score 0.0021 43.1th percentile
Risk Priority 10 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2023-0429 is a medium-severity an unspecified weakness vulnerability in Kibokolabs Watu Quiz. Its CVSS base score is 4.8 (Medium).

Operationally, ranked at the 43.1th 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

Vulnerability details

The Watu Quiz WordPress plugin before 3.3.8.2 does not sanitise and escape some of its settings, which could allow high privilege users such as admin to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed (for example…

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in multisite setup).

CWE(s)
None listed

Related Threats

No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.

Affected Assets

kibokolabs
watu quiz
≤ 3.3.8.2

Mitigating Controls

No mitigating controls mapped yet. The per-CVE control annotator has not reached this CVE.

References