CVE-2023-4757: miniorange staff_\/_employee_business_directory_for_active_directory Cross-site Scripting

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2023-4757 is a medium (CVSS 5.4) Cross-site Scripting vulnerability in miniorange staff_\/_employee_business_directory_for_active_directory. EPSS estimates a 0.46% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 38.9% of scored vulnerabilities. 1 public exploit is recorded.

Timeline

1. 16-01-2024
   PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
2. 20-06-2025
   Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

The Staff / Employee Business Directory for Active Directory WordPress plugin before 1.2.3 does not sanitize and escape data returned from the LDAP server before rendering it in the page, allowing users who can control their entries in the LDAP directory to inject malicious javascript which could be used against high-privilege users such as a site admin.

• CWE-79Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')The product does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes user-controllable input before it is placed in output that is used as a web page that is served to other users.
• CWE-116Improper Encoding or Escaping of OutputThe product prepares a structured message for communication with another component, but encoding or escaping of the data is either missing or done incorrectly. As a result, the intended structure of the message is not preserved.