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CVE-2023-5659: Interact: Embed A Quiz On Your Site <= 3.0.7 - 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: 2023-11-07 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

The Interact: Embed A Quiz On Your Site plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's 'interact-quiz' shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 3.0.7 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

• tryinteract Interact: Embed A Quiz On Your Site: through 3.0.7

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/interact-quiz-embed/tags/3.0.7/interact-quiz-embed.php#L53
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/2990262/interact-quiz-embed
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/69ba1a39-ddb0-4661-8104-d8bb71710e0c?source=cve
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/interact-quiz-embed/tags/3.0.7/interact-quiz-embed.php#L53
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/69ba1a39-ddb0-4661-8104-d8bb71710e0c?source=cve

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