CVE-2023-5911

Summary

CVE-2023-5911 is a vulnerability affecting the WP Custom Cursors plugin for WordPress. The plugin, before version 3.2, fails to properly sanitize and escape certain settings. This creates an opportunity for high privilege users, including admins, to carry out Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) attacks. Notably, this vulnerability can bypass the standard security measure of disallowing the unfiltered_html capability, posing a significant risk in multisite setups.

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