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CVE-2023-0418: Video Central for WordPress <= 1.3.0 - 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: 2023-04-24 · updated 2026-06-17

Description

The Video Central for WordPress plugin through 1.3.0 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

• Video Central for WordPress: through 1.3.0

References

• https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/821751bb-feaf-45b8-91a9-e173cb0c05fc
• https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/821751bb-feaf-45b8-91a9-e173cb0c05fc

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