Vulnerability CVE-2023-4893


Published: 2023-09-12

Description:
The Crayon Syntax Highlighter plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Server Side Request Forgery via the 'crayon' shortcode in versions up to, and including, 2.8.4. This can allow authenticated attackers with contributor-level permissions or above to make web requests to arbitrary locations originating from the web application and can be used to query and modify information from internal services.

Type:

CWE-918

 References:
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/527f75f1-6361-4e16-8ae4-d38ca4589811?source=cve
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/crayon-syntax-highlighter/trunk/crayon_highlighter.class.php#L83

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