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CVE-2024-0719: Tabs Shortcode and Widget <= 1.17 - Contributor+ Stored Cross-Site Scripting

• 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: yes
• Published: 2024-03-18 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

The Tabs Shortcode and Widget WordPress plugin through 1.17 does not validate and escape some of its shortcode attributes before outputting them back in a page/post where the shortcode is embed, which could allow users with the contributor role and above to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks

Affected products

• Tabs Shortcode and Widget: through 1.17

References

• https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/6e67bf7f-07e6-432b-a8f4-aa69299aecaf/
• https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/6e67bf7f-07e6-432b-a8f4-aa69299aecaf/

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