CVE-2023-4944: Awesome Weather Widget Project Awesome Weather Widget

Medium severity, CVSS 5.4. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The Awesome Weather Widget plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'awesome-weather' shortcode in versions up to, and including, 3.0.2 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. This makes it possible for 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.

Affected products

• Awesome Weather Widget Project Awesome Weather Widget: up to and including 3.0.2

Published 2023-09-14. Last modified 2026-06-17.