Cyber Resilience

CVE-2023-7194

Medium

Published: 22 January 2024

Published
22 January 2024
Modified
30 May 2025
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 6.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
EPSS Score 0.0012 30.1th percentile
Risk Priority 12 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2023-7194 is a medium-severity Cross-site Scripting (CWE-79) vulnerability in Meris Wp Theme Project Meris Wp Theme. Its CVSS base score is 6.1 (Medium).

Operationally, ranked at the 30.1th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

The Meris WordPress theme through 1.1.2 does not sanitise and escape some parameters before outputting them back in the page, leading to Reflected Cross-Site Scripting which could be used against high privilege users such as admin

CWE(s)
CWE-79

Related Threats

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

Affected Assets

meris wp theme project
meris wp theme
≤ 1.1.2

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.

CA-8 Penetration Testing
addresses: CWE-79

Penetration testing submits XSS payloads to web applications, detecting cross-site scripting flaws for subsequent remediation.

SI-10 Information Input Validation
addresses: CWE-79

Validates web inputs to reject script-related content that could produce XSS.

SI-15 Information Output Filtering
addresses: CWE-79

Output validation against expected content can reject or sanitize script content in generated web pages, reducing XSS exploitability.

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