Medium severity6.4NVD Advisory· Published Sep 30, 2023· Updated Apr 8, 2026
CVE-2023-5295
CVE-2023-5295
Description
The Comments by Startbit plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'vivafbcomment' shortcode in versions up to, and including, 1.4 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
1Patches
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References
2- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/facebook-comment-by-vivacity/tags/1.4/user-file.phpnvdThird Party Advisory
- www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/602b3b9c-76a7-4b0b-8aad-e554c2fd6910nvdThird Party Advisory
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