Medium severity6.4NVD Advisory· Published Nov 22, 2023· Updated Apr 8, 2026
CVE-2023-5163
CVE-2023-5163
Description
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.
Affected products
1- cpe:2.3:a:weather-atlas:weather_atlas:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*Range: <=1.2.1
Patches
0No patches discovered yet.
Vulnerability mechanics
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References
7- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/weather-atlas/tags/1.2.1/includes/class-weather-atlas.phpnvdPatch
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/weather-atlas/tags/1.2.1/includes/class-weather-atlas.phpnvdPatch
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/weather-atlas/tags/1.2.1/includes/class-weather-atlas.phpnvdPatch
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/weather-atlas/tags/1.2.1/includes/class-weather-atlas.phpnvdPatch
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/weather-atlas/tags/1.2.1/includes/class-weather-atlas.phpnvdPatch
- www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/c2324caa-f804-4f76-9d08-8951fbee4669nvdThird Party Advisory
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/weather-atlas/trunk/includes/class-weather-atlas.phpnvd
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