CVE-2023-6497 WordPress Simple Shopping Cart <= 4.7.1 - Authenticated(Administrator+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting
Administrators can inject scripts via redirect settings in WordPress Simple Shopping Cart, affecting multi-site or unfiltered_html disabled 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-2023-6497?
CVE-2023-6497 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in mra13 Simple Shopping Cart, published on 27 Jan 2024. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, with no action from the victim.
Official description
The WordPress Simple Shopping Cart plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the automatic redirect URL setting in all versions up to and including 4.7.1 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-2023-6497?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Tipsandtricks-Hq Wordpress Simple Paypal Shopping Cart.
How do I fix CVE-2023-6497?
No fix has been published for CVE-2023-6497 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-2023-6497 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-6497 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in mra13 Simple Shopping Cart
- CVE-2013-2705 Cross-site request forgery in n/a
- CVE-2025-3874 WordPress Simple PayPal Shopping Cart <= 5.1.3 - Insecure Direct Object Reference
- CVE-2025-3890 WordPress Simple PayPal Shopping Cart <= 5.1.3 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Shortcode
- CVE-2022-4672 WordPress Simple Shopping Cart < 4.6.2 - Contributor+ Stored XSS via Shortcode
- CVE-2025-3889 WordPress Simple PayPal Shopping Cart <= 5.1.3 - Insecure Direct Object Reference via 'quantity'
Sources
Also known as GHSA-cvpg-3pfh-m39w.