CVE-2023-5641

MEDIUM 6.1CVE-2023-5641 · Published 27/11/2023 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2023-5641 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 6.1) vulnerability affecting free & easy link building (martinstools).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 0.44%, higher than 38.8% of all vulnerabilities.
Fix: update to 1.2.30 or later.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
free & easy link building martinstools	`< 1.2.30`	`1.2.30`

Description

The Martins Free & Easy SEO BackLink Link Building Network WordPress plugin before 1.2.30 does not sanitise and escape a parameter before outputting it back in the page, leading to a Reflected Cross-Site Scripting which could be used against high privilege users such as admin

References

wpscan.com/vulnerability/c0a6c253-71f2-415d-a6ec-022f2eafc13b · Exploit

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