Medium severity6.4NVD Advisory· Published Sep 12, 2023· Updated Apr 8, 2026

CVE-2023-4893

Description

The Crayon Syntax Highlighter plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Server Side Request Forgery via the 'crayon' shortcode in versions up to, and including, 2.8.4. This can allow authenticated attackers with contributor-level permissions or above to make web requests to arbitrary locations originating from the web application and can be used to query and modify information from internal services.

Affected products

Aramk/Crayon Syntax Highlighter
cpe:2.3:a:aramk:crayon-syntax-highlighter:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*
Range: <=2.8.4

Patches

No patches discovered yet.

Vulnerability mechanics

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References

www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/527f75f1-6361-4e16-8ae4-d38ca4589811nvdThird Party Advisory
plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/crayon-syntax-highlighter/trunk/crayon_highlighter.class.phpnvdBroken Link

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