Description
The Reusable Text Blocks plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'text-blocks' shortcode in versions up to, and including, 1.5.3 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers with author-level and above permissions to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.
Published: 2023-10-24
Score: 5.5 Medium
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Remediation

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Advisories
Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2023-58031 The Reusable Text Blocks plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'text-blocks' shortcode in versions up to, and including, 1.5.3 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers with author-level and above permissions to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.
History

Wed, 08 Apr 2026 17:00:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Title Reusable Text Blocks <= 1.5.3 - Authenticated (Author+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Shortcode

Fri, 27 Feb 2026 00:15:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


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Halgatewood Reusable Text Blocks
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: Wordfence

Published:

Updated: 2026-04-08T16:35:15.434Z

Reserved: 2023-10-24T01:32:59.887Z

Link: CVE-2023-5745

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-02T08:07:32.758Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2023-10-25T18:17:44.700

Modified: 2026-04-08T17:17:10.893

Link: CVE-2023-5745

cve-icon Redhat

No data.

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Weaknesses