Vulnerability CVE-2023-5162
Published: 2023-09-27

Description:
The Options for Twenty Seventeen plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'social-links' shortcode in versions up to, and including, 2.5.0 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.

Type:

CWE-79

 (Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting'))

 References:
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/df35d8c6-55ec-4cf5-8055-93ec5193c0a4?source=cve
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/options-for-twenty-seventeen/tags/2.5.0/options-for-twenty-seventeen.php#L3110
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/2971104/options-for-twenty-seventeen
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