Vulnerability Details CVE-2023-5001
The Horizontal scrolling announcement for WordPress plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'horizontal-scrolling' shortcode in versions up to, and including, 9.2 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.
Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score
EPSS Score 0.001
EPSS Ranking 25.2%
CVSS Severity
CVSS v3 Score 6.4
References
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/horizontal-scrolling-announcement/trunk/horizontal-scrolling-announcement.php#L389
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/d4f60e8c-2745-4930-9101-914bd73c6e1c?source=cve
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/horizontal-scrolling-announcement/trunk/horizontal-scrolling-announcement.php#L389
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/d4f60e8c-2745-4930-9101-914bd73c6e1c?source=cve
Products affected by CVE-2023-5001
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cpe:2.3:a:gopiplus:horizontal_scrolling_announcement:9.2