{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 1 product.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-4838 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"No fix has been published for CVE-2023-4838 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.","what":"CVE-2023-4838 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in specialk Simple Download Counter, published on 9 Sep 2023. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2023-4838 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2023-4838 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in specialk Simple Download Counter, published on 9 Sep 2023. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-4838 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected product: specialk Simple Download Counter. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.\n\nTask:\n1. 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.\n2. 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.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-4838/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-4838/index.md)","id":"CVE-2023-4838","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-4838/index.md","name":"CVE-2023-4838","record":{"aliases":["GHSA-qqwv-pw4q-3733"],"analysis":{"component_type":"cms_plugin","fix_type":"upgrade","impacts":["code_execution"],"network_reachable":"yes","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"WordPress plugin","requires_auth":"low_privilege","summary":"Authenticated attackers can inject arbitrary web scripts via shortcodes, leading to script execution when users view affected pages.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"xss"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"Wordfence","cpe":[{"product":"simple_download_counter","vendor":"plugin-planet"}],"cvss":{"score":6.4,"severity":"medium","source":"cna","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N","version":"3.1"},"cwes":[],"description":"The Simple Download Counter plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's shortcodes in versions up to, and including, 1.6 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes like 'before' and 'after'. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with contributor-level permissions and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.","ecosystems":[],"exploits":{"exploitdb":0,"first_seen":null,"github_poc":0,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":0,"nuclei":0,"refs":[],"tier":"none_known"},"has_fix":null,"headline":"Cross-site scripting in Simple Download Counter","id":"CVE-2023-4838","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":null,"products":[],"type":"xss","year":"2023"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":2,"next":{"headline":"WP Go Maps \u003c= 9.0.32 - Authenticated (Administrator+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting","id":"CVE-2023-4839"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) in SmodBIP","id":"CVE-2023-4837"},"products":["Simple Download Counter"],"published":"2023-09-09","related":[{"cvss_score":6.5,"headline":"WordPress Simple Download Counter plugin \u003c= 2.2 - Cross Site Scripting (XSS) Vulnerability","id":"CVE-2025-46240","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2025-04-22"}],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"US public information, NVD API terms","name":"NVD"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":"no","exploitation":"none","technical_impact":"partial"},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2025-02-05","vendors":["specialk"]},"summary":"Authenticated attackers can inject arbitrary web scripts via shortcodes, leading to script execution when users view affected pages.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-4838/"}