CVEvulnerability
CVE-2023-5707
5.4 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2023-11-03
- 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 SEO Slider plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's 'slider' shortcode and post meta in all versions up to, and including, 1.1.0 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
• seothemes seo slider (< 1.1.1)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation weakness
References
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/seo-slider/trunk/includes/shortcode.php?rev=2367856#L68 Exploit
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/seo-slider/trunk/includes/shortcode.php?rev=2367856#L71 Exploit
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/2987802/seo-slider#file3 Patch
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/32bc88a7-93ed-4d67-9383-b6d935a0df4d?source=cve Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/seo-slider/trunk/includes/shortcode.php?rev=2367856#L68 Exploit
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/seo-slider/trunk/includes/shortcode.php?rev=2367856#L71 Exploit
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/2987802/seo-slider#file3 Patch
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/32bc88a7-93ed-4d67-9383-b6d935a0df4d?source=cve Patch, Third Party Advisory