CVE-2023-5295

Summary

CVE-2023-5295 is a Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability affecting the Blog Filter plugin for WordPress. This issue is found in versions up to and including 1.4. The vulnerability arises from insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user-supplied attributes in the 'vivafbcomment' shortcode. Authenticated attackers with contributor-level and above permissions can exploit this flaw and inject arbitrary web scripts. These scripts will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page, posing a significant security risk.

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