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CVE-2023-5291
The Blog Filter plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'AWL-BlogFilter' shortcode in versions up to, and including, 1.5.3 due to…
Impact
The Blog Filter plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'AWL-BlogFilter' 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 contributor-level and above permissions to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions |
|---|---|---|
| Awplife | Blog Filter | through 1.5.3 |
Weakness classification
References
- NVD record
- CVE.org record
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/blog-filter/tags/1.5.3/blog-filter-output.php#L128
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/2974261/blog-filter#file54
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/b95c1bf7-bb05-44d3-a185-7e38e62b7201?source=cve
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/blog-filter/tags/1.5.3/blog-filter-output.php#L128
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/2974261/blog-filter#file54
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/b95c1bf7-bb05-44d3-a185-7e38e62b7201?source=cve