CVEvulnerability
CVE-2023-5362
5.4 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2023-10-30
- 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 Carousel, Recent Post Slider and Banner Slider plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'spice_post_slider' shortcode in versions up to, and including, 2.0 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.
Affected configurations
• spicethemes carousel\, recent post slider and banner slider (< 2.1)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation weakness
References
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/spice-post-slider/tags/1.9/include/view/shortcode.php#L102 Exploit
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/spice-post-slider/tags/2.0.1/include/view/shortcode.php?rev=2981648#L102 Exploit
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/2981654/spice-post-slider Patch
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/c0dd70b9-6f8a-41fc-ab4f-f6cdfee8dfb8?source=cve Third Party Advisory
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/spice-post-slider/tags/1.9/include/view/shortcode.php#L102 Exploit
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/spice-post-slider/tags/2.0.1/include/view/shortcode.php?rev=2981648#L102 Exploit
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/2981654/spice-post-slider Patch
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/c0dd70b9-6f8a-41fc-ab4f-f6cdfee8dfb8?source=cve Third Party Advisory