Medium severity5.4NVD Advisory· Published Oct 31, 2023· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2023-5237

Description

The Memberlite Shortcodes WordPress plugin before 1.3.9 does not validate and escape some of its shortcode attributes before outputting them back in the page, which could allow users with a role as low as contributor to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks which could be used against high privilege users such as admin.

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Affected products

Strangerstudios/Memberlite Shortcodes
cpe:2.3:a:strangerstudios:memberlite_shortcodes:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*
Range: <1.3.9
WordPress/Memberlite Shortcodescpe-rescue2 versions
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- (no CPE)
- (no CPE)range: <1.3.9
Package: https://wordpress.org/plugins/memberlite-shortcodes

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References

research.cleantalk.org/cve-2023-5237-memberlite-shortcodes-stored-xss-via-shortcodenvdExploitThird Party Advisory
wpscan.com/vulnerability/a46d686c-6234-4aa8-a656-00a65c55d0b0nvdExploitThird Party Advisory

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