CVE-2023-0070

MEDIUM 5.4CVE-2023-0070 · Published 06/02/2023 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2023-0070 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 5.4) vulnerability affecting responsivevoice text to speech (responsivevoice).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 0.62%, higher than 50.2% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
responsivevoice text to speech responsivevoice	`≤ 1.7.6`	No fix yet

Description

The ResponsiveVoice Text To Speech WordPress plugin before 1.7.7 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.

References

wpscan.com/vulnerability/0d8fbd1a-9fac-42ac-94e0-f8921deb1696 · Exploit

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