CVE-2023-5062

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions WordPress Charts plugin for WordPress versions up to, and including, 0.7.0

Description The issue is related to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the wp charts shortcode due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user-supplied attributes. This allows 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.

Recommendations For WordPress Charts plugin for WordPress versions up to, and including, 0.7.0: Update to a version later than 0.7.0 to resolve the issue. As a temporary workaround, consider restricting access to the wp charts shortcode for users with contributor-level and above permissions until a patch is available.