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CVE-2023-5470: Etsy Shop <= 3.0.4 - 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: 2023-10-12 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

The Etsy Shop plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'etsy-shop' shortcode in versions up to, and including, 3.0.4 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

• fsheedy Etsy Shop: through 3.0.4

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/etsy-shop/tags/3.0.4/etsy-shop.php#L417
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/etsy-shop/tags/3.0.4/etsy-shop.php#L94
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/2977260/etsy-shop#file1
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/e4696f7a-8b87-4376-b4c9-596eca30b38c?source=cve
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/etsy-shop/tags/3.0.4/etsy-shop.php#L417
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/etsy-shop/tags/3.0.4/etsy-shop.php#L94
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/2977260/etsy-shop#file1
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/e4696f7a-8b87-4376-b4c9-596eca30b38c?source=cve

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