CVE-2023-5338

Summary

CVE-2023-5338 is a stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability affecting the Theme Blvd Shortcodes plugin for WordPress. This issue, present in versions up to 1.6.8, allows authenticated attackers with contributor-level or higher permissions to inject malicious scripts. The vulnerability stems from insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user-supplied attributes within shortcodes. Consequently, any user accessing an injected page will trigger the execution of the injected scripts.

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