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GHSA-PH7R-RW5F-2QXM

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2023-09-27 15:30 – Updated: 2024-04-04 07:55

Details

The Options for Twenty Seventeen plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'social-links' shortcode in versions up to, and including, 2.5.0 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers with contributor-level and above permissions to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

Severity

6.4 (Medium)


                  
                    CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

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CVE-2023-5162 (GCVE-0-2023-5162)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-09-26 01:51 – Updated: 2026-04-08 17:28

Title

Options for Twenty Seventeen <= 2.5.0 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Shortcode

Summary

Severity

6.4 (Medium)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2025-02-05 18:25 UTC

CWE

CWE-79 - Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

Assigner

Wordfence

References

3 references

URL	Tags
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabil…
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/option…
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/2971…

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
domainsupport	Options for Twenty Seventeen	Affected: 0 , ≤ 2.5.0 (semver)

Credits

István Márton

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Sightings

Author	Source	Type	Date	Other

Nomenclature

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Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.

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GHSA-PH7R-RW5F-2QXM

CVE-2023-5162 (GCVE-0-2023-5162)

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