CVE-2023-5135

CVSS 3.1 Score 5.4 of 10 (medium)

Details

Published Sep 27, 2023
Updated: Nov 7, 2023
CWE ID 79

Summary

CVE-2023-5135 is a vulnerability affecting the Simple Cloudflare Turnstile plugin for WordPress versions up to 1.23.1. The vulnerability is categorized as CWE-79, which refers to Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation (Cross-site Scripting). It allows authenticated attackers with contributor-level and above permissions to execute arbitrary web scripts in pages by injecting them through the 'gravity-simple-turnstile' shortcode. The vulnerability arises due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. It poses a medium risk with a base severity score of 5.4, and it requires user interaction for exploitation over a network. To remediate this vulnerability, users should update their Simple Cloudflare Turnstile plugin to versions beyond 1.23.1, which address the issue and ensure that proper input sanitization and output escaping are implemented.

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