Vulnerability CVE-2023-4597
Published: 2023-08-30

Description:
The Slimstat Analytics plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'slimstat' shortcode in versions up to, and including, 5.0.9 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers with contributor-level and above permissions to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

See advisories in our WLB2 database:
Topic
Author
Date
Med.
WordPress Slimstat Analytics 5.0.9 Cross Site Scripting / SQL Injection
Lana Codes
13.09.2023

Type:

CWE-79

 (Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting'))

 References:
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/52aee4b8-f494-4eeb-8357-71ce8d5bc656?source=cve
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=2959452%40wp-slimstat&new=2959452%40wp-slimstat&sfp_email=&sfph_mail
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https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-slimstat/tags/5.0.9/wp-slimstat.php#L892
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