CVE-2023-0371

MEDIUM 5.4CVE-2023-0371 · Published 21/02/2023 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2023-0371 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 5.4) vulnerability affecting embedsocial (embedsocial).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 0.46%, higher than 39.8% of all vulnerabilities.
Fix: update to 1.1.28 or later.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
embedsocial embedsocial	`< 1.1.28`	`1.1.28`

Description

The EmbedSocial WordPress plugin before 1.1.28 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/0b6381cd-fa31-4cc7-8b42-063a4c545577 · Exploit

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