WordPress Plugin Vulnerabilities

Vertical scroll recent post <= 14.0 - Contributor+ Stored Cross-Site Scripting

Description

The plugin does not validate and escape some of its 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
vertical-scroll-recent-post
No known fix

References

CVE
CVE-2023-23862

Classification

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

Miscellaneous

Original Researcher
yuyudhn
Verified
No
WPVDB ID
d328d95a-106d-4747-85e4-b3f08e1818e8

Timeline

Publicly Published
2023-03-21 (about 3 years ago)
Added
2023-05-09 (about 3 years ago)
Last Updated
2023-05-09 (about 3 years ago)

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