CVE-2023-5774
CVSS 3.1 Score 5.4 of 10 (medium)
Details
Published Oct 27, 2023
Updated: Nov 7, 2023
Summary
CVE-2023-5774 is a Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability affecting the Animated Counters plugin for WordPress. This issue, present in all versions up to 1.7, allows authenticated attackers with contributor-level access or higher to inject malicious scripts. The flaw stems from insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user-supplied attributes within the plugin's shortcodes. Consequently, any pages containing an injected shortcode will execute the malicious code whenever accessed.
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