CVE Catalog

CVE-2023-0177

MediumCVSS 5.4
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.48%

41th percentile - higher than 41% of all known CVEs

Summary

The Social Like Box and Page by WpDevArt WordPress plugin before 0.8.41 does not validate and escape some shortcode attributes before outputting them, allowing users with contributor role and above to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks.

Risk Assessment

Users with content creation privileges can store malicious script that executes in visitors' browsers, potentially leading to session hijacking.

Recommendation

Update the Social Like Box and Page plugin to version 0.8.41 or later. Restrict user roles to the minimum necessary.

Related vulnerabilities

Original NVD description (English source)

The Social Like Box and Page by WpDevArt WordPress plugin before 0.8.41 does not validate and escape some of its shortcode attributes before outputting them back in a page/post where the shortcode is embed, which could allow users with the contributor role and above to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS