CVE-2023-0379: Spotlight Social Feeds < 1.4.3 - 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 2026-06-17

Description

The Spotlight Social Feeds WordPress plugin before 1.4.3 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

Spotlight Social Feeds [Block, Shortcode, and Widget]: before 1.4.3 — fixed in 1.4.3

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Spotlight Social Feeds [Block, Shortcode, and Widget] 1.4.3. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/14b4f0c5-c7b1-4ac4-8c9c-f8c35ca5de4a
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/14b4f0c5-c7b1-4ac4-8c9c-f8c35ca5de4a

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