Medium severity6.4NVD Advisory· Published Nov 7, 2023· Updated Apr 8, 2026

CVE-2023-5659

Description

The Interact: Embed A Quiz On Your Site plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's 'interact-quiz' shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 3.0.7 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

Tryinteract/Interact\
cpe:2.3:a:tryinteract:interact\:embed_a_quiz_on_your_site:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*
Range: <=3.0.7

Patches

No patches discovered yet.

Vulnerability mechanics

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References

www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/69ba1a39-ddb0-4661-8104-d8bb71710e0cnvdThird Party Advisory
plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/interact-quiz-embed/tags/3.0.7/interact-quiz-embed.phpnvdProduct
plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/2990262/interact-quiz-embednvd

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