CVE-2023-1121: Simple Giveaways < 2.45.1 - Admin+ Stored Cross-Site Scripting

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.8 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: 2023-04-10 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

The Simple Giveaways WordPress plugin before 2.45.1 does not sanitise and escape some of its settings, which could allow high privilege users such as admin to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed (for example in multisite setup)

Affected products

Igor Benic Simple Giveaways: before 2.45.1 — fixed in 2.45.1

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Igor Benic Simple Giveaways 2.45.1. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/7ead9fb9-d81f-47c6-a1b4-21f29183cc15
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/7ead9fb9-d81f-47c6-a1b4-21f29183cc15

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