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CVE-2023-0280: Ultimate Carousel For Elementor <= 2.1.7 - Contributor+ Stored XSS

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.4 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2023-05-08 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

The Ultimate Carousel For Elementor WordPress plugin through 2.1.7 does not validate and escape some of its block options before outputting them back in a page/post where the block is embed, which could allow users with the contributor role and above to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks.

Affected products

• Ultimate Carousel For Elementor: through 2.1.7

References

• https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/cb7ed9e6-0fa0-4ebb-9109-8f33defc8b32
• https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/cb7ed9e6-0fa0-4ebb-9109-8f33defc8b32

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