CVE-2023-6556 Cross-site scripting in FOX – Currency Switcher Professional for WooCommerce

Medium 5.4 Published Updated

Authenticated attackers can inject arbitrary scripts via currency options, leading to stored XSS execution on victim pages.

Exploited in the wild
Not known
Login needed
Any signed-in user
Attackable
Over the internet
Victim action needed
Not needed
Fix
None listed

What is CVE-2023-6556?

CVE-2023-6556 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in realmag777 FOX – Currency Switcher Professional for WooCommerce, published on 11 Jan 2024. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

The FOX – Currency Switcher Professional for WooCommerce plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via currency options in all versions up to, and including, 1.4.1.5 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

Weakness: CWE-79

Which versions are affected by CVE-2023-6556?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Pluginus Fox - Currency Switcher Professional for Woocommerce.

How do I fix CVE-2023-6556?

No fix has been published for CVE-2023-6556 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-2023-6556 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-6556 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Sources

Also known as GHSA-jcc9-p6r7-vjxg.

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