CVEvulnerability
CVE-2023-5063
5.4 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2023-09-20
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 6.4 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.4 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-79
Description
The Widget Responsive for Youtube plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'youtube' shortcode in versions up to, and including, 1.6.1 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.
Affected configurations
• stefanoai widget responsive for youtube (<= 1.6.1)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation weakness
References
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/youtube-widget-responsive/trunk/youtube-widget-responsive.php?rev=2905626#L246 Patch
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/2968766/youtube-widget-responsive#file1 Product
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/72daa533-8b17-420c-9b51-b5f72da2726c?source=cve Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/youtube-widget-responsive/trunk/youtube-widget-responsive.php?rev=2905626#L246 Patch
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/2968766/youtube-widget-responsive#file1 Product
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/72daa533-8b17-420c-9b51-b5f72da2726c?source=cve Patch, Third Party Advisory