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CVE-2023-0177: Social Like Box and Page by WpDevArt < 0.8.41 - Contributor+ Stored XSS

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.4 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2023-02-13 · updated 2026-10-28

Description

The Social Like Box and Page by WpDevArt WordPress plugin before 0.8.41 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.

Affected products

• Smplug-in Social Like Box and Page by WpDevArt: before 0.8.41 — fixed in 0.8.41

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Smplug-in Social Like Box and Page by WpDevArt 0.8.41. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/712c2154-37f4-424c-ba3b-26ba6aa95bca
• https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/712c2154-37f4-424c-ba3b-26ba6aa95bca

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