Medium severity6.4NVD Advisory· Published Sep 27, 2023· Updated Apr 8, 2026
CVE-2023-5162
CVE-2023-5162
Description
The Options for Twenty Seventeen plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'social-links' shortcode in versions up to, and including, 2.5.0 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
1- cpe:2.3:a:webd:options_for_twenty_seventeen:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*Range: <=2.5.0
Patches
0No patches discovered yet.
Vulnerability mechanics
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References
3- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/2971104/options-for-twenty-seventeennvdPatch
- www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/df35d8c6-55ec-4cf5-8055-93ec5193c0a4nvdThird Party Advisory
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/options-for-twenty-seventeen/tags/2.5.0/options-for-twenty-seventeen.phpnvdProduct
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