Medium severity6.4NVD Advisory· Published Oct 30, 2023· Updated Apr 8, 2026
CVE-2023-5362
CVE-2023-5362
Description
The Carousel, Recent Post Slider and Banner Slider plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'spice_post_slider' shortcode in versions up to, and including, 2.0 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.
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Affected products
2- cpe:2.3:a:spicethemes:carousel\,_recent_post_slider_and_banner_slider:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*Range: <2.1
- Range: <=2.0
Patches
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References
4- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/2981654/spice-post-slidernvdPatch
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/spice-post-slider/tags/1.9/include/view/shortcode.phpnvdExploit
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/spice-post-slider/tags/2.0.1/include/view/shortcode.phpnvdExploit
- www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/c0dd70b9-6f8a-41fc-ab4f-f6cdfee8dfb8nvdThird Party Advisory
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