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CVE-2023-1661: Display post meta, term meta, comment meta, and user meta <= 1.0.0 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting

• 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: none known
• Published: 2023-05-31 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

The Display post meta, term meta, comment meta, and user meta plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via post metadata in versions up to, and including, 1.0.0 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with contributor-level permissions and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

Affected products

• trasweb Display post meta, term meta, comment meta, and user meta: through 0.4.1

References

• https://wordpress.org/plugins/display-metadata/#developers
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/6f90c0d8-ede6-4f24-870f-19e888238e93?source=cve
• https://wordpress.org/plugins/display-metadata/#developers
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/6f90c0d8-ede6-4f24-870f-19e888238e93?source=cve

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