CVE-2023-1978: The ShiftController Employee Shift Scheduling plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Reflected Cross-Site Scripting via the query string in versions...

6.1 CVSS

Description

The ShiftController Employee Shift Scheduling plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Reflected Cross-Site Scripting via the query string in versions up to, and including, 4.9.25 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that execute if they can successfully trick a user into performing an action such as clicking on a link.

Classification

CVE ID: CVE-2023-1978

CVSS Base Severity: MEDIUM

CVSS Base Score: 6.1

Affected Products

Vendor: plainware

Product: ShiftController Employee Shift Scheduling

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

EPSS Score: 0.09% (probability of being exploited)

EPSS Percentile: 38.27% (scored less or equal to compared to others)

EPSS Date: 2025-02-03 (when was this score calculated)

References

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/b5c61212-e68e-4198-b078-18121576b767?source=cve
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/2898274/shiftcontroller

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