CVE-2023-2710 video carousel slider with lightbox <= 1.0.22 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting

What is CVE-2023-2710?

CVE-2023-2710 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in nik00726 video carousel slider with lightbox, published on 16 May 2023. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

The video carousel slider with lightbox plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Reflected Cross-Site Scripting via the search_term parameter in versions up to, and including, 1.0.22 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. CVE-2023-32797 may be a duplicate of this.

Weakness: CWE-79

Which versions are affected by CVE-2023-2710?

It affects 1 product.

Products include I13websolution Video Carousel Slider With Lightbox.

How do I fix CVE-2023-2710?

No fix has been published for CVE-2023-2710 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-2023-2710 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-2710 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in nik00726 video carousel slider with lightbox

• CVE-2023-32797 WordPress video carousel slider with lightbox Plugin <= 1.0.22 is vulnerable to Cross Site Scripting (XSS) High 7.1
• CVE-2019-25212 video carousel slider with lightbox <= 1.0.6 - Authenticated (Admin+) SQL Injection Medium 4.9
• CVE-2023-5945 Cross-site request forgery in video carousel slider with lightbox Medium 4.3

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as GHSA-w692-32rg-j4wj.