Medium severity6.4NVD Advisory· Published Oct 27, 2023· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2023-5774
CVE-2023-5774
Description
The Animated Counters plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's shortcode(s) in all versions up to, and including, 1.7 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.
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Affected products
2- Range: <=1.7
Patches
Vulnerability mechanics
References
4- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/2984228/nvdPatch
- drive.google.com/file/d/1zXWW545ktCznO36k90AN0APhTz8ky-gG/viewnvdExploit
- www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/33c2756d-c300-479f-b3aa-8f22c3a70278nvdThird Party Advisory
- research.cleantalk.org/cve-2023-5774-animated-counters-stored-xss-via-shortcode-author-poc/nvd
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