QID 150717

Date Published: 2023-09-27

QID 150717: WordPress Booster for Woocommerce Plugin: Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability (CVE-2023-4945)

Booster for WooCommerce is an addon plugin for WooCommerce designed to enhance its functionality through the use of various modules that site owners can enable and disable at any point.

The Booster for WooCommerce plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via multiple shortcodes due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers with contributor-level and above permissions to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

Affected Versions:
The Booster for WooCommerce WordPress plugin before 7.1.1

QID Detection Logic:
This QID sends a HTTP GET request and checks for vulnerable version of WordPress plugin running on the target application.

Successful exploitation would lead attackers to inject HTML or JavaScript via a cross-site scripting, which can help the attacker carry out further attacks and obtain sensitive information.

  • CVSS V3 rated as Medium - 5.4 severity.
  • CVSS V2 rated as Medium - 5.5 severity.
    • Solution
    Customers are advised to upgrade to Booster for WooCommerce 7.1.1 or later version to remediate this vulnerability. For more information regarding this vulnerability please refer Wordfence Security Advisory.
    Vendor References

    CVEs related to QID 150717

    CVE-2023-4945 |
    Software Advisories
    Advisory ID Software Component Link
    Booster for WooCommerce URL Logo wordpress.org/plugins/woocommerce-jetpack/#developers
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