Medium severity5.4NVD Advisory· Published Jan 30, 2023· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2023-0074

Description

The WP Social Widget WordPress plugin before 2.2.4 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.

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Affected products

Catchsquare/Wp Social Widget
cpe:2.3:a:catchsquare:wp_social_widget:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*
Range: <2.2.4
WordPress/Wp Socialcpe-rescue
Package: https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-social
WordPress/WP Social Widgetllm-create
Range: <2.2.4

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References

wpscan.com/vulnerability/82f543e3-9397-4364-9546-af5ea134fcd4nvdExploitThird Party Advisory

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