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THREATINT
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CVE-2023-5942

Medialist < 1.4.1 - Contributor+ Stored XSS



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

Reserved 2023-11-02 | Published 2023-11-27 | Updated 2025-06-05 | Assigner WPScan

Problem types

CWE-79 Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)

Product status

Default status
unaffected

Any version before 1.4.1
affected

Credits

Dmitrii Ignatyev finder

WPScan coordinator

References

wpscan.com/...erability/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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