Medium severity6.4NVD Advisory· Published Oct 20, 2023· Updated Apr 8, 2026

CVE-2023-5071

Description

The Sitekit plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'sitekit_iframe' shortcode in versions up to, and including, 1.4 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with contributor-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

Affected products

Sitekit Project/Sitekit
cpe:2.3:a:sitekit_project:sitekit:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*
Range: <=1.4

Patches

No patches discovered yet.

Vulnerability mechanics

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References

plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/sitekit/trunk/inc/sitekit-shortcode-iframe.phpnvdPatch
plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/2970788/sitekitnvdPatch
www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/011c8a06-298e-4a53-9ef8-552585426d79nvdThird Party Advisory

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