CVE-2023-3746 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

The ActivityPub WordPress plugin before 1.0.0 does not sanitize and escape some data from post content, which could allow contributor and above role to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks

Published: 2023-10-16

Score: 5.4 Medium

EPSS: < 1% Very Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

Unknown

ActivityPub

unaffected

Version	Status	Constraints
`0`	affected	< 1.0.0

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:automattic:activitypub:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*

No data.

No data available yet.

Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

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Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2023-44381	The ActivityPub WordPress plugin before 1.0.0 does not sanitize and escape some data from post content, which could allow contributor and above role 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.

The EPSS score is 0.00109.

Exploitation poc

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

References

Link	Providers
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/c15a6032-6495-47a8-828c-37e55ed9665a

History

Wed, 23 Apr 2025 17:15:00 +0000

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

Subscriptions

Automattic Activitypub

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: WPScan

Published: 2023-10-16T19:39:14.930Z

Updated: 2025-04-23T16:12:00.785Z

Reserved: 2023-07-18T08:31:40.662Z

Link: CVE-2023-3746

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-02T07:01:57.522Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2023-10-16T20:15:15.010

Modified: 2025-04-23T17:16:38.757

Link: CVE-2023-3746

Redhat

No data.

OpenCVE Enrichment

No data.

Weaknesses

No weakness.

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