CVE-2023-5715

CVSS 3.1 Score 4.8 of 10 (medium)

Details

Published Nov 22, 2023
Updated: Nov 29, 2023
CWE ID 79

Summary

CVE-2023-5715 is a Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability affecting the Website Optimization – Plerdy plugin for WordPress. This issue, present in all versions up to 1.3.2, allows authenticated attackers with administrator-level access to inject malicious scripts into the tracking code settings. These scripts are executed whenever a user accesses an injected page, making it a significant threat for multi-site installations and those with unfiltered_html disabled. This vulnerability arises due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping in the plugin.

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