Medium severity5.4NVD Advisory· Published Feb 21, 2023· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2023-0371

Description

The EmbedSocial WordPress plugin before 1.1.28 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

WordPress/Embedsocialinferred2 versions
<1.1.28+ 1 more
- (no CPE)range: <1.1.28
- (no CPE)range: <1.1.28
Package: https://wordpress.org/plugins/embedsocial

Patches

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References

wpscan.com/vulnerability/0b6381cd-fa31-4cc7-8b42-063a4c545577nvdExploitThird Party Advisory

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