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CVE-2023-1602

• 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: none known
• Published: 2023-06-29 · updated 2026-06-17

Description

The Short URL plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'comment' parameter due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping in versions up to, and including, 1.6.4. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with administrator-level permissions and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

Affected products

• KaizenCoders Short URL: through 1.6.4

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/2931815/shorten-url/trunk/shorten-url.php
• https://wordpress.org/plugins/shorten-url/#developers
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/a5f29f35-da79-4389-a0a5-a1be0b0b8996?source=cve
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/2931815/shorten-url/trunk/shorten-url.php
• https://wordpress.org/plugins/shorten-url/#developers
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/a5f29f35-da79-4389-a0a5-a1be0b0b8996?source=cve

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