CVE-2023-5162
CVSS 3.0 Score 6.3 of 10 (medium)
Details
Published Sep 27, 2023
Updated: Nov 7, 2023
CWE ID 259
Summary
CVE-2023-5162 is a stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability affecting the Options for Twenty Seventeen plugin for WordPress. This issue allows authenticated attackers with contributor-level permissions and above to inject arbitrary web scripts via the 'social-links' shortcode in versions up to 2.5.0. The vulnerability stems from insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user-supplied attributes, enabling the attacker's code to be stored and executed whenever a user accesses an injected page.
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