# CVE-2023-4757: Staff / Employee Business Directory for Active Directory < 1.2.3 - Improper escaping of LDAP entries

> Attackers with LDAP control can inject malicious JavaScript into the directory, potentially compromising high-privilege WordPress administrators.

- **Severity:** Medium 5.4 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** A user has to click or open something
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 16 Jan 2024
- **Updated:** 20 Jun 2025
- **Also known as:** GHSA-cj4r-mxq9-xgx5

## What is CVE-2023-4757?

CVE-2023-4757 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in Unknown Staff / Employee Business Directory for Active Directory, published on 16 Jan 2024. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

### Official description

The Staff / Employee Business Directory for Active Directory WordPress plugin before 1.2.3 does not sanitize and escape data returned from the LDAP server before rendering it in the page, allowing users who can control their entries in the LDAP directory to inject malicious javascript which could be used against high-privilege users such as a site admin.

Weakness: CWE-79 (Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2023-4757?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Miniorange Staff \/ Employee Business Directory for Active Directory.

## How do I fix CVE-2023-4757?

No fix has been published for CVE-2023-4757 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2023-4757 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-4757 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in Unknown Staff / Employee Business Directory for Active Directory

- [CVE-2023-4505](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-4505/): Staff / Employee Business Directory for Active Directory <= 1.2.3 - Authenticated (Admin+) LDAP Passback (low 2.2)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2023-4757 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2023-4757 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in Unknown Staff / Employee Business Directory for Active Directory, published on 16 Jan 2024. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-4757 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Unknown Staff / Employee Business Directory for Active Directory. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-4757/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-4757/index.md)
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## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-4757
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-4757
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2023-4757

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-4757/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.