CVE-2023-5357

Published Oct 4, 2023

Last updated a year ago

Overview

Description
The Instagram for WordPress plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via shortcodes in versions up to, and including, 2.1.6 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.
Source
security@wordfence.com
NVD status
Modified

Risk scores

CVSS 3.1

Type
Primary
Base score
5.4
Impact score
2.7
Exploitability score
2.3
Vector string
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Severity
MEDIUM

Social media

Hype score
Not currently trending

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