CVE-2023-4944
Awesome Weather Widget <= 3.0.2 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Shortcode
CVSS Score
6.4
EPSS Score
0.0%
EPSS Percentile
0th
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.
| CWE | CWE-79 |
| Vendor | richardgabriel |
| Product | awesome weather widget |
| Published | Sep 14, 2023 |
| Last Updated | Apr 8, 2026 |
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CVSS v3 Breakdown
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N Attack Vector
Attack Complexity
Privileges Required
User Interaction
Scope
Confidentiality
Integrity
Availability
Affected Versions
richardgabriel / Awesome Weather Widget
0 ≤ 3.0.2
References
wordfence.com: https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/3bf77988-370b-437f-83a0-18a147e3e087?source=cve plugins.trac.wordpress.org: https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/awesome-weather/tags/3.0.2/awesome-weather.php#L133 plugins.trac.wordpress.org: https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/awesome-weather/tags/3.0.2/awesome-weather.php#L117
Credits
István Márton