Medium severity6.4NVD Advisory· Published Sep 15, 2023· Updated Apr 8, 2026

CVE-2023-4963

Description

The WS Facebook Like Box Widget plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'ws-facebook-likebox' shortcode in versions up to, and including, 5.0 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers with contributor-level and above permissions to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

Affected products

Webshouters/Ws Facebook Like Box Widget
cpe:2.3:a:webshouters:ws_facebook_like_box_widget:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*
Range: <=5.0

Patches

No patches discovered yet.

Vulnerability mechanics

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References

www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/8bebc229-9d15-439f-a8df-f68455bc5193nvdThird Party Advisory
plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ws-facebook-likebox/trunk/includes/shortcodes.phpnvdProduct

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