🔐 CVE Alert

CVE-2023-5163

MEDIUM 6.4

Weather Atlas Widget <= 1.2.1 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Shortcode

CVSS Score
6.4
EPSS Score
0.0%
EPSS Percentile
0th

The Weather Atlas Widget plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'shortcode-weather-atlas' shortcode in versions up to, and including, 1.2.1 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 weatheratlas
Product weather atlas widget
Published Nov 22, 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

weatheratlas / Weather Atlas Widget
0 ≤ 1.2.1

References

NVD ↗ CVE.org ↗ EPSS Data ↗
wordfence.com: https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/c2324caa-f804-4f76-9d08-8951fbee4669?source=cve plugins.trac.wordpress.org: https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/weather-atlas/tags/1.2.1/includes/class-weather-atlas.php#L838 plugins.trac.wordpress.org: https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/weather-atlas/tags/1.2.1/includes/class-weather-atlas.php#L858 plugins.trac.wordpress.org: https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/weather-atlas/tags/1.2.1/includes/class-weather-atlas.php#L844 plugins.trac.wordpress.org: https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/weather-atlas/tags/1.2.1/includes/class-weather-atlas.php#L845 plugins.trac.wordpress.org: https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/weather-atlas/tags/1.2.1/includes/class-weather-atlas.php#L860 plugins.trac.wordpress.org: https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/weather-atlas/trunk/includes/class-weather-atlas.php?rev=3000811#L326

Credits

István Márton