Medium severity6.4NVD Advisory· Published Nov 22, 2023· Updated Apr 8, 2026

CVE-2023-5469

Description

The Drop Shadow Boxes plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'dropshadowbox' shortcode in versions up to, and including, 1.7.13 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

Stevenhenty/Drop Shadow Boxes
cpe:2.3:a:stevenhenty:drop_shadow_boxes:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*
Range: <=1.7.13

Patches

No patches discovered yet.

Vulnerability mechanics

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References

plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/drop-shadow-boxes/tags/1.7.12/dropshadowboxes.phpnvdPatch
plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/2998610/drop-shadow-boxesnvdPatch
www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/c0b3911c-a960-4f28-b289-389b26282741nvdThird Party Advisory

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