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CVE-2023-4944: Awesome Weather Widget <= 3.0.2 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Shortcode

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.4 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2023-09-14 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

The Awesome Weather Widget plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'awesome-weather' shortcode in versions up to, and including, 3.0.2 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

• richardgabriel Awesome Weather Widget: through 3.0.2

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/awesome-weather/tags/3.0.2/awesome-weather.php#L117
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/awesome-weather/tags/3.0.2/awesome-weather.php#L133
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/3bf77988-370b-437f-83a0-18a147e3e087?source=cve
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/awesome-weather/tags/3.0.2/awesome-weather.php#L117
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/awesome-weather/tags/3.0.2/awesome-weather.php#L133
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/3bf77988-370b-437f-83a0-18a147e3e087?source=cve

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