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CVE-2023-6382: Master Slider - Responsive Touch Slider <= 3.9.9 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.4 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2024-06-01 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

The Master Slider – Responsive Touch Slider plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's 'ms_slide' shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 3.9.9 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied 'css_class' attribute. 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

• averta Master Slider – Responsive Touch Slider: before 3.9.10 — fixed in 3.9.10

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: averta Master Slider – Responsive Touch Slider 3.9.10. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/master-slider/trunk/includes/msp-shortcodes.php#L55
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3065917%40master-slider&new=3065917%40master-slider&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3084860%40master-slider&new=3084860%40master-slider&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/2d2fc926-6f9f-4ed9-9598-e39b5e6c6544?source=cve
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/master-slider/trunk/includes/msp-shortcodes.php#L55
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3065917%40master-slider&new=3065917%40master-slider&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3084860%40master-slider&new=3084860%40master-slider&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/2d2fc926-6f9f-4ed9-9598-e39b5e6c6544?source=cve

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