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CVE-2023-5163: Weather Atlas Widget <= 1.2.1 - 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: 0.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
- Public exploit or detection template: none known
- Published: 2023-11-22 · updated 2026-06-17
- Weakness: CWE-79
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
- weatheratlas Weather Atlas Widget: through 1.2.1
References
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/weather-atlas/tags/1.2.1/includes/class-weather-atlas.php#L838
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/weather-atlas/tags/1.2.1/includes/class-weather-atlas.php#L844
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/weather-atlas/tags/1.2.1/includes/class-weather-atlas.php#L845
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/weather-atlas/tags/1.2.1/includes/class-weather-atlas.php#L858
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/weather-atlas/tags/1.2.1/includes/class-weather-atlas.php#L860
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/weather-atlas/trunk/includes/class-weather-atlas.php?rev=3000811#L326
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/c2324caa-f804-4f76-9d08-8951fbee4669?source=cve
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/weather-atlas/tags/1.2.1/includes/class-weather-atlas.php#L838
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/weather-atlas/tags/1.2.1/includes/class-weather-atlas.php#L844
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/weather-atlas/tags/1.2.1/includes/class-weather-atlas.php#L845
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/weather-atlas/tags/1.2.1/includes/class-weather-atlas.php#L858
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/weather-atlas/tags/1.2.1/includes/class-weather-atlas.php#L860
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