CVE-2023-5942

Description

The Medialist WordPress plugin before 1.4.1 does not validate and escape some of its shortcode attributes before outputting them back in a page/post where the shortcode is embed, which could allow users with the contributor role and above to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks

Problem types

CWE-79 Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)

Product status

Credits

Dmitrii Ignatyev 0x4004de0fe0

WPScan 0x4004de0ff0

References

https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/914559e1-eed5-4a69-8371-a48055835453 exploit vdb-entry technical-description

cve.org CVE-2023-5942

nvd.nist.gov CVE-2023-5942

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