Mocho BlogWordPress extension · Everestthemes
CVE-2023-27412
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 · uneditedUnauth. Reflected Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Everest themes Mocho Blog theme <= 1.0.4 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 · moderate confidenceUnauthenticated reflected Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the Mocho Blog WordPress theme versions 1.0.4 and below. An attacker can inject malicious scripts through unsanitized user input in HTTP parameters, which is reflected back in the response without proper output encoding.
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
Mocho BlogWordPress extension
<= 1.0.4CVSS 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
- None
- User interaction
- Required
- Scope
- Changed
- Confidentiality
- Low
- Integrity
- Low
- Availability
- None
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/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 checksWork through these to decide whether this CVE applies to you.
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Verify Mocho Blog theme is installedAccess WordPress admin panel, navigate to Appearance > Themes, or inspect /wp-content/themes/ directory for the mocho-blog folderAffected if The Mocho Blog theme folder exists in the WordPress themes directory
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Check if Mocho Blog theme is activeIn WordPress admin, go to Appearance > Themes and see if Mocho Blog is the currently active themeAffected if Mocho Blog is the active theme being used on the site
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Determine the installed theme versionOpen the theme's style.css file located at /wp-content/themes/mocho-blog/style.css and locate the 'Version:' header in the file comments, or view theme details in WordPress admin under Appearance > ThemesAffected if The version listed is 1.0.4 or lower (e.g., 1.0.4, 1.0.3, 1.0.2, etc.)
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Confirm vulnerable HTTP parameter handlingTest by submitting unsanitized input via URL parameters (such as search or query parameters) and observing if the input is reflected verbatim in the page response without HTML encodingAffected if User-supplied input in HTTP parameters appears in the HTML response without proper encoding (e.g., <script> tags are not escaped)
You are affected if the Mocho Blog theme is installed, is at version 1.0.4 or below, and reflected XSS occurs when user input is returned in the response without sanitization.
Generated from the published advisory. Verify against your own configuration.
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.
From vendor dataUpdate the Mocho Blog theme to the latest version beyond 1.0.4. If an update is unavailable, implement WAF rules to filter XSS attack patterns or migrate to an actively maintained theme.
Fix this in Mocho Blog
Scoped from the published advisory
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- Implementation2.0 h
- Testing3.0 h
- Review / QA2.0 h
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References Go to the primary sourcePrimary sources — vendor advisories, patches and trackers. Where our summary and a reference disagree, the reference wins.
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ContributedPeer-ranked notes from engineers who’ve handled CVE-2023-27412 in production — separate from our analysis above.
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- A config change or rule that shut the vector down
- A gotcha in the upgrade path that cost you an afternoon
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