Medium severity6.4NVD Advisory· Published Oct 20, 2023· Updated Apr 8, 2026

CVE-2023-5618

Description

The Modern Footnotes plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's shortcode in versions up to, and including, 1.4.16 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with contributor-level permissions and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

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Affected products

Prismtechstudios/Modern Footnotes
cpe:2.3:a:prismtechstudios:modern_footnotes:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*
Range: <1.4.17
WordPress/Modern Footnotesllm-fuzzy
Range: <=1.4.16
Package: https://wordpress.org/plugins/modern-footnotes

Patches

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References

plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/2980695/modern-footnotesnvdPatch
www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/c20c674f-54b5-470f-b470-07a63501eb4dnvdPatchThird Party Advisory
research.cleantalk.org/cve-2023-5618-modern-footnotes-stored-xss-via-shortcode-poc/nvd

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