FKIE_CVE-2023-2436

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2023-05-31 03:15 - Updated: 2026-06-17 05:52
Severity
4.4 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
4.8 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Summary
The Blog-in-Blog plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'blog_in_blog' shortcode in versions up to, and including, 2.0.0 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers with editor-level and above permissions to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.
References
security@wordfence.comhttps://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/blog-in-blog/tags/1.1.1/blog-in-blog.php#L257Patch
security@wordfence.comhttps://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3446931/
security@wordfence.comhttps://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/5c6a88c3-18b7-470f-8014-373ead66dcfa?source=cveThird Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/blog-in-blog/tags/1.1.1/blog-in-blog.php#L257Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/5c6a88c3-18b7-470f-8014-373ead66dcfa?source=cveThird Party Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
blog-in-blog_project blog-in-blog *
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