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CVE-2023-5162

MEDIUM

6.4

Description

The Options for Twenty Seventeen plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'social-links' shortcode in versions up to, and including, 2.5.0 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.

CVE Details

CVSS v3.1 Score6.4

SeverityMEDIUM

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

Attack VectorNETWORK

ComplexityLOW

Privileges RequiredLOW

User InteractionNONE

Published9/27/2023

Last Modified4/8/2026

Sourcenvd

Honeypot Sightings0

Affected Products

webd:options_for_twenty_seventeen

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-79

References

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/options-for-twenty-seventeen/tags/2.5.0/options-for-twenty-seventeen.php#L3110(security@wordfence.com)

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/2971104/options-for-twenty-seventeen(security@wordfence.com)

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/df35d8c6-55ec-4cf5-8055-93ec5193c0a4?source=cve(security@wordfence.com)

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/options-for-twenty-seventeen/tags/2.5.0/options-for-twenty-seventeen.php#L3110(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/2971104/options-for-twenty-seventeen(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/df35d8c6-55ec-4cf5-8055-93ec5193c0a4?source=cve(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

IOC Correlations

No correlations recorded

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