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CVE-2023-5116: Live updates from Excel <= 2.3.2 - 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: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2023-10-31 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

The Live updates from Excel plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's 'ipushpull_page' shortcode in versions up to, and including, 2.3.2 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. 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

• ipushpull Live updates from Excel: through 2.3.2

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ipushpull/trunk/public/class-ipushpull-public.php#L113
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/2999563/ipushpull
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/ab856722-e954-49de-a93f-46664da6e3e8?source=cve
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ipushpull/trunk/public/class-ipushpull-public.php#L113
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/ab856722-e954-49de-a93f-46664da6e3e8?source=cve

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