CVE-2023-7084
Published: 16 January 2024
Summary
CVE-2023-7084 is a medium-severity Cross-site Scripting (CWE-79) vulnerability in Davidjmiller Voting Record. Its CVSS base score is 5.4 (Medium).
Operationally, ranked at the 36.2th 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-2023-59268
Vulnerability details
The Voting Record WordPress plugin through 2.0 is missing sanitisation as well as escaping, which could allow any authenticated users, such as subscriber to perform Stored XSS 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.