CVE-2023-2711: Ultimate Product Catalog < 5.2.6 - Admin+ Stored XSS

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.8 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: yes
Published: 2023-06-27 · updated 2026-06-17

Description

The Ultimate Product Catalog WordPress plugin before 5.2.6 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

Ultimate Product Catalog: before 5.2.6 — fixed in 5.2.6

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Ultimate Product Catalog 5.2.6. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/71c5b5b5-8694-4738-8e4b-8670a8d21c86
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/71c5b5b5-8694-4738-8e4b-8670a8d21c86

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