CVE-2023-5163: Weather-Atlas Weather Atlas

Medium severity, CVSS 5.4. EPSS: 0.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The Weather Atlas Widget plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'shortcode-weather-atlas' shortcode in versions up to, and including, 1.2.1 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

• Weather-Atlas Weather Atlas: up to and including 1.2.1

Published 2023-11-22. Last modified 2026-06-17.