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CVE-2023-5942 (GCVE-0-2023-5942)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-11-27 16:22 – Updated: 2025-06-05 14:00
VLAI?
Title
Medialist < 1.4.1 - Contributor+ Stored XSS
Summary
The Medialist WordPress plugin before 1.4.1 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
Severity ?
5.4 (Medium)
Assigner
References
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Credits
Dmitrii Ignatyev
WPScan
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