CVE-2023-5743
CVSS 3.1 Score 5.4 of 10 (medium)
Details
Published Nov 7, 2023
Updated: Nov 14, 2023
CWE ID 79
Summary
CVE-2023-5743 is a stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability affecting the Telephone Number Linker plugin for WordPress. The issue lies in the 'telnumlink' shortcode, which does not properly sanitize or escape user-supplied attributes. This flaw allows authenticated attackers with contributor-level access or higher to inject arbitrary web scripts. When a user accesses a page with an injected script, the malicious code will execute, potentially leading to unintended actions or data access. All versions of the plugin up to and including 1.2 are impacted.
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