CVE-2023-4284 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

The Post Timeline WordPress plugin before 2.2.6 does not sanitise and escape an invalid nonce before outputting it back in an AJAX response, leading to a Reflected Cross-Site Scripting which could be used against high privilege users such as admin

Published: 2023-09-04

Score: 6.1 Medium

EPSS: 12.1% Moderate

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

Post Timeline

unaffected

Version	Status	Constraints
`0`	affected	< 2.2.6

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:agilelogix:post_timeline:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*

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Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

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Tracking

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Advisories

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No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

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 0.12121.

Exploitation poc

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

References

Link	Providers
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/1c126869-0afa-456f-94cc-10334964e5f9

History

Thu, 06 Mar 2025 16:15:00 +0000

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

Subscriptions

Agilelogix Post Timeline

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: WPScan

Published: 2023-09-04T11:26:59.291Z

Updated: 2025-03-06T16:04:28.427Z

Reserved: 2023-08-10T08:17:40.667Z

Link: CVE-2023-4284

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-02T07:24:04.598Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2023-09-04T12:15:10.627

Modified: 2025-03-06T16:15:44.440

Link: CVE-2023-4284

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

No weakness.

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