CVE-2023-5661
CVSS 3.1 Score 5.4 of 10 (medium)
Details
Published Nov 7, 2023
Updated: Nov 14, 2023
CWE ID 79
Summary
CVE-2023-5661 is a Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability affecting the Social Feed plugin for WordPress. The issue lies in the 'socialfeed' shortcode, where user-supplied attributes lack adequate input sanitization and output escaping in all versions up to 1.5.4.6. Consequently, authenticated attackers with author-level or above access can inject malicious scripts. These scripts will execute whenever a user views an injected page, posing a significant security risk.
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