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CVE-2023-4646

MEDIUM 5.4 CVSS 3.1
Published
October 16, 2023
Last modified
June 17, 2026
NVD status
Modified
Reported by
contact@wpscan.com
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Description

The Simple Posts Ticker WordPress plugin before 1.1.6 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.

Affected products and versions

  • Unknown Simple Posts Ticker — Before 1.1.6
  • sayandatta simple_posts_ticker — Before 1.1.6

References

  • wpscan.com https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/c34f8dcc-3be6-44ad-91a4-7c3a0ce2f9d7 Exploit, Third Party Advisory
  • nvd.nist.gov Official NVD record