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CVE-2023-0212: Advanced Recent Posts <= 0.6.14 - 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: 2023-03-06 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

The Advanced Recent Posts WordPress plugin through 0.6.14 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

• Advanced Recent Posts: through 0.6.14

References

• https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/5fdd44aa-7f3f-423a-9fb0-dc9dc36f33a3
• https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/5fdd44aa-7f3f-423a-9fb0-dc9dc36f33a3

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