CVE-2023-5338
CVSS 3.1 Score 5.4 of 10 (medium)
Details
Published Nov 22, 2023
Updated: Nov 27, 2023
CWE ID 79
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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