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CVE-2023-5413: Image horizontal reel scroll slideshow <= 13.3 - 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: 2023-12-19 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

The Image horizontal reel scroll slideshow plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'ihrss-gallery' shortcode in versions up to, and including, 13.3 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

• gopiplus Image horizontal reel scroll slideshow: through 13.3

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/image-horizontal-reel-scroll-slideshow/trunk/image-horizontal-reel-scroll-slideshow.php#L212
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3010834/image-horizontal-reel-scroll-slideshow
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/28ba6f91-c696-4019-ae87-28ebfbe464cf?source=cve
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/image-horizontal-reel-scroll-slideshow/trunk/image-horizontal-reel-scroll-slideshow.php#L212
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3010834/image-horizontal-reel-scroll-slideshow
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/28ba6f91-c696-4019-ae87-28ebfbe464cf?source=cve

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