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Material Design Icons For Page BuildersWordPress extension · Material Design Icons For Page Builders Project

CVE-2023-24374

MEDIUM · 5.4 CVSS v3.1 Published 2023-04-06
Fix available
A fix is available. Upgrade to 1.4.3 or later.
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58/100
Remediation priority · Elevated
Remotely reachable

Official description Straight from the sourceThe vendor's or NVD's own wording, published unedited. Authoritative, but often terse — it says what broke, rarely what to do.

NVD · unedited
Auth. (contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Photon WP Material Design Icons for Page Builders plugin <= 1.4.2 versions.

Technical summary Written by usOur analysis, written from the advisory, the CVSS vector and the affected-version data. It adds context the advisory leaves out, and never invents facts that are not in the source.

dbcve analysis · high confidence

A stored XSS vulnerability exists in the Photon WP Material Design Icons for Page Builders plugin where insufficient input sanitization allows contributor-level or higher authenticated users to inject malicious JavaScript through plugin settings or icon configurations, which then executes in the browsers of other users viewing the affected pages.

MitigationUpdate the plugin to a version newer than 1.4.2 and implement proper input sanitization and output escaping for all user-supplied data in the plugin's settings and icon rendering functions.

Verify against the referenced sources before acting — the references below are authoritative for this CVE, this summary is not.

Affected products & versions What the vendor confirmedThe version ranges the vendor confirmed as vulnerable. If your version sits inside a range here, treat yourself as exposed until you have upgraded.

NVD · CPE data
Material Design Icons For Page BuildersWordPress extension
Affected:< 1.4.3

CVSS breakdown How the score is builtThe industry scoring standard. It rates how the flaw is reached, what it takes to exploit, and what an attacker gains — the score is derived from those, not the other way round.

From the vector
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
Required
Scope
Changed
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
Low
Availability
None

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

Am I affected? How to checkSteps we derive from the advisory and the affected-version data, so you can decide whether this CVE reaches your setup. They are a guide, not a scan — your own configuration is the authority.

dbcve checks

Work through these to decide whether this CVE applies to you.

  1. Identify the installed plugin version
    Locate the plugin in the WordPress plugins directory, typically at /wp-content/plugins/photon-wp-material-design-icons-for-page-builders/, and check the main PHP file (usually named something like photon-wp-mdi.php or similar) for the version constant or header comment.
    Affected if The version number found is less than 1.4.3
  2. Verify authenticated user access
    Check if any user account with contributor-level or higher role (Contributor, Author, Editor, Administrator) exists on the WordPress site.
    Affected if At least one user account with contributor or higher role exists on the site
  3. Inspect plugin settings for stored scripts
    Access the plugin settings page in the WordPress admin panel (usually under Settings or a dedicated menu item for Material Design Icons) and examine all input fields where icon names, labels, or configuration values can be entered.
    Affected if Any plugin settings fields contain unsanitized HTML or JavaScript code that was not escaped when displayed
  4. Check icon configuration database entries
    Query the WordPress database (wp_options table or custom plugin table) for stored icon configurations, looking for any values that contain script tags, javascript: URLs, or event handler attributes like onload, onerror, onclick.
    Affected if Database entries for plugin icon configurations contain suspicious patterns such as <script>, javascript:, or event handlers (onload, onerror, onclick, etc.)
  5. Examine rendered pages for XSS execution
    View pages on the site that display Material Design Icons and inspect the page source (right-click > View Page Source) to see if icon-related HTML attributes or text content contain unescaped user-supplied data.
    Affected if Rendered HTML contains raw user input from plugin settings without proper HTML entity encoding (e.g., < instead of &lt;)

The site is affected if the installed plugin version is below 1.4.3 AND any contributor+ user can access plugin settings or icon configuration options.

Generated from the published advisory. Verify against your own configuration.

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Remediation Closing itWhat it takes to close this. Where a vendor fix exists we point at it; where none exists we say so plainly, and can build one. Effort estimates are scoped from the advisory, not from your codebase.

dbcve · scoped
Upgrade available Upgrade to 1.4.3 or later
Fixed in 1.4.3
Interim mitigation

Update the plugin to a version newer than 1.4.2 and implement proper input sanitization and output escaping for all user-supplied data in the plugin's settings and icon rendering functions.

Recommended fix High confidence

1.4.3

  1. 1. Navigate to the WordPress admin dashboard
  2. 2. Go to Plugins > Installed Plugins
  3. 3. Find 'Material Design Icons For Page Builders' (also known as 'Photon WP Material Design Icons for Page Builders')
  4. 4. If an update is available, click 'Update Now' to upgrade to version 1.4.3 or higher
  5. 5. Alternatively, download version 1.4.3 or later from the WordPress plugin repository and upload via Plugins > Add New > Upload Plugin
  6. 6. Verify the installed version is 1.4.3 or higher after updating

Generated from the published advisory — verify against the referenced sources before acting.

Fix this in Material Design Icons For Page Builders Scoped from the published advisory
  • Consultation2.0 h
  • Implementation6.0 h
  • Testing3.0 h
  • Review / QA2.0 h
13.0 hours of engineering $2,290
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