Medium severity4.4NVD Advisory· Published May 31, 2023· Updated Apr 8, 2026

CVE-2023-2436

Description

The Blog-in-Blog plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'blog_in_blog' shortcode in versions up to, and including, 2.0.0 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers with editor-level and above permissions to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

Affected products

Blog In Blog Project/Blog In Blog
cpe:2.3:a:blog-in-blog_project:blog-in-blog:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*
Range: <=1.1.1

Patches

No patches discovered yet.

Vulnerability mechanics

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References

plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/blog-in-blog/tags/1.1.1/blog-in-blog.phpnvdPatch
www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/5c6a88c3-18b7-470f-8014-373ead66dcfanvdThird Party Advisory
plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3446931/nvd

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