Medium severity · published Oct 24, 2023
CVE-2023-5745
Reusable Text Blocks <= 1.5.3 - Authenticated (Author+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Shortcode
5.4
CVSS
0.5%
EPSS
No
On KEV
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.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
Required
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
Low
Availability
None
Scope
Changed
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.5% · higher than 44% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
RT
Reusable Text Blocks · richardgabriel
through 1.5.3 · source: vendor, NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-5745
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-5745
Release Notes
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/reusable-text-blocks/tags/1.5.3/text-blocks.php#L319
Third Party Advisory
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/0d627ee7-1175-4621-a477-1e9ec2d05eee?source=cve
