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

CVE-2023-5291

Description

The Blog Filter plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'AWL-BlogFilter' shortcode in versions up to, and including, 1.5.3 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.

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Affected products

Awplife/Blog Filter
cpe:2.3:a:awplife:blog_filter:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*
Range: <=1.5.3
WordPress/Blog Filterllm-fuzzy
Range: <=1.5.3
Package: https://wordpress.org/plugins/blog-filter

Patches

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References

plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/blog-filter/tags/1.5.3/blog-filter-output.phpnvdPatch
plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/2974261/blog-filternvdPatch
www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/b95c1bf7-bb05-44d3-a185-7e38e62b7201nvdThird Party Advisory

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