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1 vulnerability found for VK Filter Search by vektor-inc

CVE-2023-5705 (GCVE-0-2023-5705)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2023-10-27 11:28
Modified
2026-04-08 16:32
CWE
  • CWE-79 - Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
Summary
The VK Filter Search plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's 'vk_filter_search' shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 2.3.1 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers with contributor-level and above permissions to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
vektor-inc VK Filter Search Version: 0   ≤ 2.3.1
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