CVE-2023-34017 HIGH

CVE-2023-34017: WordPress Five Star Restaurant Reservations Plugin <= 2.6.7 is vulnerable to Cross Site Scripting (XSS)

Vendor Fivestarplugins

Product Five Star Restaurant Reservations

Weakness CWE-79 · XSS

Published July 25, 2023

Last update April 28, 2026

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CVSS base score

7.1/10

Attack vector Network

Attack complexity Low

Privileges required None

User interaction Required

Confidentiality Low

Integrity Low

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L

What the vulnerability does

01Description

Unauth. Reflected Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in FiveStarPlugins Five Star Restaurant Reservations plugin <= 2.6.7 versions.

Explanation of Vulnerability in Simple Terms

02Summary

Five Star Restaurant Reservations versions up to 2.6.7 contain a stored cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability. An attacker can inject malicious scripts that execute in the browsers of site visitors or administrators. The vulnerability requires user interaction to trigger and can affect multiple users across the site. Update to a version newer than 2.6.7 to remediate.

What an attacker can do

03Attacker Capabilities

Inject malicious scripts that run in visitors' browsers, stealing session tokens or redirecting users.

Potential impact on your site

04Site Impact

Visitors and staff may have sessions hijacked or be redirected to malicious sites; site reputation at risk.

Conditions required to exploit

05Prerequisites

No authentication required. Victim must visit a page containing the injected payload.

Key dates

06Disclosure timeline

July 25, 2023 CVE published

April 28, 2026 Record updated

External resources

07References

NVD — National Vulnerability Database https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-34017 CWE — Common Weakness Enumeration https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/79.html AskarLabs — CWE-79 write-up Cross-Site Scripting

Related vulnerabilities

Identifiers

CVE CVE-2023-34017

CWE CWE-79

CVSS 7.1 / HIGH

Affected versions