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CVE-2023-1917: PowerPress <= 10.0 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Shortcode

• 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: none known
• Published: 2023-06-09 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

The PowerPress plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's shortcode(s) in versions up to, and including, 10.0 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers with contributor-level and above permissions to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page. NOTE: A partial fix for the issue was introduced in version 10.0.1, and an additional patch (version 10.0.2) was released to address a workaround.

Affected products

• PowerPress Podcasting plugin by Blubrry: through 10.0

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/powerpress/trunk/powerpress-player.php#L102
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/2896729/powerpress
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/2899207/powerpress
• https://www.wordfence.com/blog/2023/04/blubrry-addresses-authenticated-stored-xss-vulnerability-in-powerpress-wordpress-plugin/
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/44583cb7-bc32-4e62-8431-f5f1f6baeff2?source=cve
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/powerpress/trunk/powerpress-player.php#L102
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/2896729/powerpress
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/2899207/powerpress
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/44583cb7-bc32-4e62-8431-f5f1f6baeff2?source=cve

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