CVE-2023-1159 Cross-site scripting in WordPress Online Booking and Scheduling Plugin – Bookly
Administrators can inject scripts via service titles in Bookly, affecting multi-site or restricted HTML installations.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- An administrator
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- A user has to click or open something
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2023-1159?
CVE-2023-1159 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in ladela WordPress Online Booking and Scheduling Plugin – Bookly, published on 2 Jun 2023. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Official description
The Bookly plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via service titles in versions up to, and including, 21.5 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers with administrative privileges 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-2023-1159?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Booking-Wp-Plugin Bookly.
How do I fix CVE-2023-1159?
No fix has been published for CVE-2023-1159 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-2023-1159 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-1159 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in ladela WordPress Online Booking and Scheduling Plugin – Bookly
Sources
Also known as GHSA-8q83-6h2v-r7fm.