WordPress Plugin Vulnerabilities

Bitly's < 2.7.2 - Contributor+ Stored XSS

Description

The plugin does not validate and escape its wpbitly shortcode attributes before outputting them back in a page/post where the shortcode is embed, which could allow users with the contributor role and above to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks

Affects Plugins

Plugin icon
wp-bitly
Fixed in 2.7.2

References

CVE
CVE-2023-5577

Classification

Type
XSS
OWASP top 10
A7: Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
CWE
CWE-79
CVSS
5.9 (medium)

Miscellaneous

Original Researcher
Lana Codes
Verified
No
WPVDB ID
6e5e66c2-43a4-46e7-bf1d-fa36b6e4387a

Timeline

Publicly Published
2023-11-06 (about 2 years ago)
Added
2023-11-16 (about 2 years ago)
Last Updated
2024-11-05 (about 1 year ago)

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Published
2025-04-17
Title
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Published
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Title
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