CVE-2023-0178 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

The Annual Archive WordPress plugin before 1.6.0 does not validate and escape some of its shortcode attributes before outputting them back in a page/post where the shortcode is embed, which could allow users with the contributor role and above to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required Low

Scope Changed

Confidentiality Impact Low

Integrity Impact Low

Availability Impact None

User Interaction Required

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

Exploitation poc

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

Vendors	Products
Twinpictures	Annual Archive

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:twinpictures:annual_archive:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*

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References

Link	Providers
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/cc308e15-7937-4d41-809d-74f8c13bee23

History

Wed, 26 Mar 2025 14:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'poc', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: WPScan

Published: 2023-02-06T19:59:08.721Z

Updated: 2025-03-26T13:50:56.955Z

Reserved: 2023-01-11T03:10:34.938Z

Link: CVE-2023-0178

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-02T05:02:43.799Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2023-02-06T20:15:13.990

Modified: 2025-03-26T14:15:26.580

Link: CVE-2023-0178

Redhat

No data.

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