CVEvulnerability
CVE-2023-5745
5.4 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2023-10-25
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/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 Reusable Text Blocks plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'text-blocks' shortcode in versions up to, and including, 1.5.3 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers with author-level and above permissions to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.
Affected configurations
• halgatewood reusable text blocks (<= 1.5.3)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation weakness
References
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/reusable-text-blocks/tags/1.5.3/text-blocks.php#L319 Release Notes
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/0d627ee7-1175-4621-a477-1e9ec2d05eee?source=cve Third Party Advisory
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/reusable-text-blocks/tags/1.5.3/text-blocks.php#L319 Release Notes
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/0d627ee7-1175-4621-a477-1e9ec2d05eee?source=cve Third Party Advisory