CVE-2023-6958

Summary

CVE-2023-6958 is a stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability affecting the WP Recipe Maker plugin for WordPress. This issue, present in all versions up to 9.1.0, allows authenticated attackers with contributor-level access and above to inject malicious scripts. The vulnerability stems from insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user-supplied attributes within the plugin's shortcodes. Successful exploitation of this flaw enables attackers to execute arbitrary web scripts, posing a significant security risk whenever an injected page is accessed.

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