Atomicorp WAF Research Note: CVE-2023-2813

Wordpress Multiple Themes - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting

Research Notes

This page documents research related to exploit techniques, attack behaviors, testing results, and WAF rule interactions associated with this vulnerability.

Research finding: this note documents observed WAF protections relevant to exploit techniques associated with this vulnerability.

These notes are not intended to represent the full set of vulnerabilities mitigated by Atomicorp products and should not be interpreted as a coverage matrix, certification list, or census of protected CVEs.

Atomicorp WAF protections are primarily designed around attack techniques and exploit behaviors rather than individual vulnerability identifiers. A published research note documents a positive research finding related to that CVE. If a CVE is absent from these notes, no conclusion should be drawn about protection status.

Vulnerability Description

All of the above Aapna WordPress theme through 1.3, Anand WordPress theme through 1.2, Anfaust WordPress theme through 1.1, Arendelle WordPress theme before 1.1.13, Atlast Business WordPress theme through 1.5.8.5, Bazaar Lite WordPress theme before 1.8.6, Brain Power WordPress theme through 1.2, BunnyPressLite WordPress theme before 2.1, Cafe Bistro WordPress theme before 1.1.4, College WordPress theme before 1.5.1, Connections Reloaded WordPress theme through 3.1, Counterpoint WordPress theme through 1.8.1, Digitally WordPress theme through 1.0.8, Directory WordPress theme before 3.0.2, Drop WordPress theme before 1.22, Everse WordPress theme before 1.2.4, Fashionable Store WordPress theme through 1.3.4, Fullbase WordPress theme before 1.2.1, Ilex WordPress theme before 1.4.2, Js O3 Lite WordPress theme through 1.5.8.2, Js Paper WordPress theme through 2.5.7, Kata WordPress theme before 1.2.9, Kata App WordPress theme through 1.0.5, Kata Business WordPress theme through 1.0.2, Looki Lite WordPress theme before 1.3.0, moseter WordPress theme through 1.3.1, Nokke WordPress theme before 1.2.4, Nothing Personal WordPress theme through 1.0.7, Offset Writing WordPress theme through 1.2, Opor Ayam WordPress theme through 18, Pinzolo WordPress theme before 1.2.10, Plato WordPress theme before 1.1.9, Polka Dots WordPress theme through 1.2, Purity Of Soul WordPress theme through 1.9, Restaurant PT WordPress theme before 1.1.3, Saul WordPress theme before 1.1.0, Sean Lite WordPress theme before 1.4.6, Tantyyellow WordPress theme through 1.0.0.5, TIJAJI WordPress theme through 1.43, Tiki Time WordPress theme through 1.3, Tuaug4 WordPress theme through 1.4, Tydskrif WordPress theme through 1.1.3, UltraLight WordPress theme through 1.2, Venice Lite WordPress theme before 1.5.5, Viala WordPress theme through 1.3.1, viburno WordPress theme before 1.3.2, Wedding Bride WordPress theme before 1.0.2, Wlow WordPress theme before 1.2.7 suffer from the same issue about the search box reflecting the results causing XSS which allows an unauthenticated attacker to exploit against users if they click a malicious link.

Public Vulnerability References

• NVD
• CVE Record

CVE Details

• CVE: CVE-2023-2813
• Name: Wordpress Multiple Themes - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting
• Severity: medium
• CVSS: 6.1 (Medium)
• CVSS source: N/A
• Vendor: ajaydsouza
• Product: connections_reloaded
• Latest protected observation: 2026-07-03
• Rule IDs observed: 333141

Test or Research Source

• Source: http/cves/2023/CVE-2023-2813.yaml
• Tags: ajaydsouza, cve, cve2023, vuln, wordpress, wp-theme, wpscan, xss

Research Note Context

This research note documents exploit-technique analysis associated with this vulnerability and references Atomicorp WAF protections observed during engineering review, testing, or validation activities.

Atomicorp security controls are generally designed to identify and mitigate attack techniques and exploit behaviors rather than individual CVE identifiers. As a result, protections developed for one vulnerability may also apply to related attack variants and future vulnerabilities using similar techniques.

Learn More

Atomicorp develops commercially supported security technologies for web applications, servers, endpoints, workloads, and legacy enterprise platforms.

Organizations interested in protecting systems against exploit techniques associated with vulnerabilities such as this one can learn more about:

• Atomic ModSecurity Rules: commercially maintained WAF rules for ModSecurity deployments, including protections for web attacks, bots, scanners, malware, exploitation attempts, and emerging vulnerability classes.
• Atomic WAF: an enterprise web application firewall with Atomicorp rules, centralized management, reporting, authentication controls, and operational tooling.
• Atomic ModSecurity Integrator: a special licensing option for MSPs, MSSPs, OEMs, VARs, reverse proxy providers, and other integrators who want to incorporate Atomicorp ModSecurity rule technology into their own products or services.
• Atomic OSSEC: an enterprise OSSEC-based intrusion detection, compliance, and security monitoring platform.
• Atomic Protector: workload protection for Linux, web, cloud, data center, and hybrid environments.

For additional information, product evaluations, or technical discussions, visit https://www.atomicorp.com/ or https://modsecurity.io/ .