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CVE-2023-5162: Options for Twenty Seventeen <= 2.5.0 - 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: 0.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2023-09-27 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

The Options for Twenty Seventeen plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'social-links' shortcode in versions up to, and including, 2.5.0 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.

Affected products

• domainsupport Options for Twenty Seventeen: through 2.5.0

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/options-for-twenty-seventeen/tags/2.5.0/options-for-twenty-seventeen.php#L3110
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/2971104/options-for-twenty-seventeen
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/df35d8c6-55ec-4cf5-8055-93ec5193c0a4?source=cve
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/options-for-twenty-seventeen/tags/2.5.0/options-for-twenty-seventeen.php#L3110
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/2971104/options-for-twenty-seventeen
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/df35d8c6-55ec-4cf5-8055-93ec5193c0a4?source=cve

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