CVE-2023-5062 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

The WordPress Charts plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'wp_charts' shortcode in versions up to, and including, 0.7.0 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.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required Low

Scope Changed

Confidentiality Impact Low

Integrity Impact Low

Availability Impact None

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00096.

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

Vendors	Products
Wpartisan	Wordpress Charts

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:wpartisan:wordpress_charts:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*

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References

Link	Providers
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-charts/tags/0.7.0/wordpress_charts_js.php#L223
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-charts/tags/0.7.0/wordpress_charts_js.php#L229
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/2de2d2c5-1373-45b6-93a0-575713226669?source=cve

History

Wed, 08 Apr 2026 17:00:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Title		WordPress Charts <= 0.7.0 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Shortcode
Weaknesses		CWE-79

Wed, 05 Feb 2025 20:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: Wordfence

Published: 2023-09-20T02:31:41.145Z

Updated: 2026-04-08T16:44:18.188Z

Reserved: 2023-09-19T14:23:49.810Z

Link: CVE-2023-5062

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-02T07:44:53.893Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2023-09-20T03:15:14.073

Modified: 2026-04-08T17:17:06.047

Link: CVE-2023-5062

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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