Medium severity6.4NVD Advisory· Published Oct 20, 2023· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2023-5308

Description

The Podcast Subscribe Buttons plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'podcast_subscribe' shortcode in versions up to, and including, 1.4.8 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

Secondlinethemes/Podcast Subscribe Buttons
cpe:2.3:a:secondlinethemes:podcast_subscribe_buttons:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*
Range: <=1.4.8
WordPress/Podcast Subscribe Buttonsllm-create
Range: <=1.4.8

Patches

Vulnerability mechanics

References

plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/podcast-subscribe-buttons/tags/1.4.8/template-parts/inline-button.phpnvdPatch
plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/2973904/podcast-subscribe-buttonsnvdPatch
www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/17dbfb82-e380-464a-bfaf-2d0f6bf07f25nvdThird Party Advisory

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