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CVE-2023-1602
The Short URL plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'comment' parameter due to insufficient input…
Medium4.4EPSS 0.40%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- Wordfence
Description
The Short URL plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'comment' parameter due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping in versions up to, and including, 1.6.4. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with administrator-level permissions and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| WordfenceCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | Medium4.4 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Medium4.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.40% · top 65% of all CVEs (6 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.4.
Weakness
- CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
Affected products
- affected 1.6.4
References (3)
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/a5f29f35-da79-4389-a0a5-a1be0b0b8996?source=cve (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://wordpress.org/plugins/shorten-url/#developers (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/2931815/shorten-url/trunk/shorten-url.php (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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