🔐 CVE Alert

CVE-2023-5062

MEDIUM 6.4

WordPress Charts <= 0.7.0 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Shortcode

CVSS Score
6.4
EPSS Score
0.0%
EPSS Percentile
0th

The WordPress Charts plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'wp_charts' shortcode in versions up to, and including, 0.7.0 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 webfactory
Product wordpress charts
Published Sep 20, 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

webfactory / WordPress Charts
0 ≤ 0.7.0

References

NVD ↗ CVE.org ↗ EPSS Data ↗
wordfence.com: https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/2de2d2c5-1373-45b6-93a0-575713226669?source=cve plugins.trac.wordpress.org: https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-charts/tags/0.7.0/wordpress_charts_js.php#L223 plugins.trac.wordpress.org: https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-charts/tags/0.7.0/wordpress_charts_js.php#L229

Credits

István Márton