CVE-2023-5659
CVSS 3.1 Score 5.4 of 10 (medium)
Details
Published Nov 7, 2023
Updated: Nov 14, 2023
CWE ID 79
Summary
CVE-2023-5659 is a Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability affecting the Interact: Embed A Quiz On Your Site plugin for WordPress. The issue lies in the plugin's 'interact-quiz' shortcode, which fails to properly sanitize and escape user-supplied attributes. This vulnerability allows authenticated attackers with contributor-level access and above to inject arbitrary web scripts. Once injected, these scripts will be executed whenever a user accesses an affected page. Versions of the plugin up to and including 3.0.7 are affected by this issue.
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