Medium severity6.1NVD Advisory· Published Jun 9, 2023· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2023-1978

Description

The ShiftController Employee Shift Scheduling plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Reflected Cross-Site Scripting via the query string in versions up to, and including, 4.9.25 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that execute if they can successfully trick a user into performing an action such as clicking on a link.

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Affected products

Plainware/Shiftcontroller
cpe:2.3:a:plainware:shiftcontroller:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*
Range: <=4.9.25
WordPress/ShiftController Employee Shift Schedulingllm-fuzzy
Range: <=4.9.25

Patches

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References

plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/2898274/shiftcontrollernvdPatch
www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/b5c61212-e68e-4198-b078-18121576b767nvdThird Party Advisory

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