CVE-2023-0553 Quick Restaurant Menu <= 2.0.2 - Authenticated (Administrator+) Cross-Site Scripting
Administrators can inject scripts via settings in Quick Restaurant Menu, affecting multi-site or restricted HTML installations.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- An administrator
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2023-0553?
CVE-2023-0553 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in alejandropascual Quick Restaurant Menu, published on 27 Jan 2023. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, with no action from the victim.
Official description
The Quick Restaurant Menu plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via its settings parameters in versions up to, and including, 2.0.2 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. 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. This only affects multi-site installations and installations where unfiltered_html has been disabled.
Weakness: CWE-79
Which versions are affected by CVE-2023-0553?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Thingsforrestaurants Quick Restaurant Menu.
How do I fix CVE-2023-0553?
No fix has been published for CVE-2023-0553 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Escape output for the context it lands in and set a strict Content Security Policy. Upgrading the affected component is the real fix. More about Cross-site scripting.
Is CVE-2023-0553 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-0553 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in alejandropascual Quick Restaurant Menu
Sources
Also known as GHSA-vm2w-gxx4-c9vc.