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CVE-2023-5605: URL Shortify < 1.7.9.1 - Admin+ Stored XSS

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.8 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: yes
• Published: 2023-11-06 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

The URL Shortify WordPress plugin before 1.7.9.1 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

• URL Shortify: through 1.7.8

References

• https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/9ec03ef0-0c04-4517-b761-df87af722a64
• https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/9ec03ef0-0c04-4517-b761-df87af722a64

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