CVE-2023-4294 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

The URL Shortify WordPress plugin before 1.7.6 does not properly escape the value of the referer header, thus allowing an unauthenticated attacker to inject malicious javascript that will trigger in the plugins admin panel with statistics of the created short link.

Published: 2023-09-11

Score: 6.1 Medium

EPSS: 32.4% 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

URL Shortify

unaffected

Version	Status	Constraints
`0`	affected	< 1.7.6

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:kaizencoders:url_shortify:*:*:*:*:*: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 0.32418.

Exploitation poc

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

References

Link	Providers
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/1fc71fc7-861a-46cc-a147-1c7ece9a7776

History

Fri, 02 May 2025 18:15:00 +0000

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

Subscriptions

Kaizencoders Url Shortify

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: WPScan

Published: 2023-09-11T19:46:09.500Z

Updated: 2025-05-02T17:40:10.398Z

Reserved: 2023-08-10T12:56:23.278Z

Link: CVE-2023-4294

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-02T07:24:04.243Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2023-09-11T20:15:11.973

Modified: 2025-05-02T18:15:25.730

Link: CVE-2023-4294

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

No data.

Weaknesses

No weakness.

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