Vulnerability CVE-2023-5362
Published: 2023-10-30

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.

Type:

CWE-79

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

 References:
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/c0dd70b9-6f8a-41fc-ab4f-f6cdfee8dfb8?source=cve
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/spice-post-slider/tags/1.9/include/view/shortcode.php#L102
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/spice-post-slider/tags/2.0.1/include/view/shortcode.php?rev=2981648#L102
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/2981654/spice-post-slider
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