The Awesome Weather Widget plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'awesome-weather' shortcode in versions up to, and including, 3.0.2 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers with contributor-level and above permissions to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.
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EUVD |
EUVD-2023-54780 | The Awesome Weather Widget for WordPress plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'awesome-weather' shortcode in versions up to, and including, 3.0.2 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers with contributor-level and above permissions to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page. |
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Wed, 08 Apr 2026 17:45:00 +0000
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| Description | The Awesome Weather Widget for WordPress plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'awesome-weather' shortcode in versions up to, and including, 3.0.2 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers with contributor-level and above permissions to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page. | The Awesome Weather Widget plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'awesome-weather' shortcode in versions up to, and including, 3.0.2 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers with contributor-level and above permissions to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page. |
| Title | Awesome Weather Widget <= 3.0.2 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Shortcode | |
| Weaknesses | CWE-79 |
Wed, 05 Feb 2025 20:15:00 +0000
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: Wordfence
Published:
Updated: 2026-04-08T16:47:20.428Z
Reserved: 2023-09-13T14:07:45.522Z
Link: CVE-2023-4944
Updated: 2024-08-02T07:44:52.839Z
Status : Modified
Published: 2023-09-14T03:15:08.777
Modified: 2026-04-08T18:18:20.183
Link: CVE-2023-4944
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EUVD