CVE-2023-0212

MEDIUM 5.4CVE-2023-0212 · Published 06/03/2023 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2023-0212 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 5.4) vulnerability affecting advanced recent posts (advanced recent posts project).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 0.47%, higher than 40.9% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
advanced recent posts advanced_recent_posts_project	`≤ 0.6.14`	No fix yet

Description

The Advanced Recent Posts WordPress plugin through 0.6.14 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/5fdd44aa-7f3f-423a-9fb0-dc9dc36f33a3 · Exploit

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