Medium severity5.5NVD Advisory· Published Oct 25, 2023· Updated Apr 8, 2026
CVE-2023-5745
CVE-2023-5745
Description
The Reusable Text Blocks plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'text-blocks' shortcode in versions up to, and including, 1.5.3 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers with author-level and above permissions to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.
Affected products
1- cpe:2.3:a:halgatewood:reusable_text_blocks:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*Range: <=1.5.3
Patches
0No patches discovered yet.
Vulnerability mechanics
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