CVE-2023-1891

MEDIUM 6.1CVE-2023-1891 · Published 27/06/2023 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2023-1891 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 6.1) vulnerability affecting accordion & faq (helpiewp).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 0.49%, higher than 42.1% of all vulnerabilities.
Fix: update to 1.9.9 or later.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
accordion & faq helpiewp	`< 1.9.9`	`1.9.9`

Description

The Accordion & FAQ WordPress plugin before 1.9.9 does not escape various generated URLs, before outputting them in attributes when some notices are displayed, leading to Reflected Cross-Site Scripting

References

wpscan.com/vulnerability/4e5d993f-cc20-4b5f-b4c8-c13004151828 · Exploit

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