CVE-2023-5001
CVSS 3.1 Score 7.8 of 10 (high)
Details
Published Sep 16, 2023
Updated: Nov 7, 2023
CWE ID 120
Summary
CVE-2023-5001 is a Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability affecting the Horizontal scrolling announcement plugin for WordPress. This issue, present in versions up to 9.2, allows authenticated attackers with contributor-level permissions and above to inject arbitrary web scripts. The vulnerability stems from insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user-supplied attributes within the 'horizontal-scrolling' shortcode. Consequently, when a user accesses an injected page, the malicious scripts are executed.
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