CVE-2023-4151
Published: 04 September 2023
Summary
CVE-2023-4151 is a medium-severity an unspecified weakness vulnerability in Agilelogix Store Locator. Its CVSS base score is 6.1 (Medium).
Operationally, ranked in the top 4.1% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
Deeper analysis
The vulnerability CVE-2023-4151 is a reflected cross-site scripting flaw in the Store Locator WordPress plugin before version 1.4.13. The root cause is a failure to sanitize and escape an invalid nonce value before echoing it back within an AJAX response, rated at CVSS 6.1 under the vector AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N.
An unauthenticated attacker can trigger the flaw by supplying a crafted request that causes the plugin to reflect attacker-controlled content into the response seen by a victim. Successful exploitation allows script execution in the browser of high-privilege users such as administrators, enabling limited impacts on confidentiality and integrity within the affected site.
The referenced WPScan advisory identifies the affected plugin versions and links the issue to the missing output encoding of the nonce. No material change in exploitation probability is recorded; EPSS has remained flat at its peak value of 0.2163 since disclosure.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2023-54031
Vulnerability details
The Store Locator WordPress plugin before 1.4.13 does not sanitise and escape an invalid nonce before outputting it back in an AJAX response, leading to a Reflected Cross-Site Scripting which could be used against high privilege users such as admin
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Related Threats
No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.
Affected Assets
Mitigating Controls
No mitigating controls mapped yet. The per-CVE control annotator has not reached this CVE.