Description
The Medialist WordPress plugin before 1.4.1 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
Published: 2023-11-27
Score: 5.4 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-2023-58214 The Medialist WordPress plugin before 1.4.1 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
History

Thu, 05 Jun 2025 14:15:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
First Time appeared Medialist
Medialist medialist
CPEs cpe:2.3:a:medialist:medialist:1.4.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Vendors & Products Medialist
Medialist medialist
Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'poc', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}

Subscriptions

Drelton Medialist
Medialist Medialist
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: WPScan

Published:

Updated: 2025-06-05T14:00:11.181Z

Reserved: 2023-11-02T19:22:36.157Z

Link: CVE-2023-5942

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-02T08:14:25.224Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2023-11-27T17:15:09.563

Modified: 2024-11-21T08:42:49.633

Link: CVE-2023-5942

cve-icon Redhat

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cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses