Cyber Resilience

CVE-2023-4795

MediumPublic PoC

Published: 16 October 2023

Published
16 October 2023
Modified
23 April 2025
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 5.4 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
EPSS Score 0.0011 28.8th percentile
Risk Priority 11 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2023-4795 is a medium-severity an unspecified weakness vulnerability in Sazzadh Testimonial Slider Shortcode. Its CVSS base score is 5.4 (Medium).

Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique JavaScript (T1059.007); ranked at the 28.8th 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 Testimonial Slider Shortcode WordPress plugin before 1.1.9 does not validate and escape some of its shortcode attributes before outputting them back in the page, which could allow users with a role as low as contributor to perform Stored Cross-Site…

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Scripting attacks which could be used against high privilege users such as admin

CWE(s)
None listed

Related Threats

MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI

T1059.007 JavaScript Execution
Adversaries may abuse various implementations of JavaScript for execution.
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T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application Initial Access
Adversaries may attempt to exploit a weakness in an Internet-facing host or system to initially access a network.
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T1539 Steal Web Session Cookie Credential Access
An adversary may steal web application or service session cookies and use them to gain access to web applications or Internet services as an authenticated user without needing credentials.
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T1555.003 Credentials from Web Browsers Credential Access
Adversaries may acquire credentials from web browsers by reading files specific to the target browser.
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Why these techniques?

Stored XSS allows arbitrary JavaScript execution in admin browser context, enabling JavaScript interpretation (T1059.007), exploitation of public-facing web app vuln (T1190), stealing web session cookies (T1539), and extracting credentials from web browsers (T1555.003).

Affected Assets

sazzadh
testimonial slider shortcode
≤ 1.1.9

Mitigating Controls

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

References