CVE-2023-5745
Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-79
Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
Publication date:
25/10/2023
Last modified:
08/04/2026
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.
Impact
Base Score 3.x
5.50
Severity 3.x
MEDIUM
Vulnerable products and versions
| CPE | From | Up to |
|---|---|---|
| cpe:2.3:a:halgatewood:reusable_text_blocks:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:* | 1.5.3 (including) |
To consult the complete list of CPE names with products and versions, see this page
References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/reusable-text-blocks/tags/1.5.3/text-blocks.php#L319
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/0d627ee7-1175-4621-a477-1e9ec2d05eee?source=cve
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/reusable-text-blocks/tags/1.5.3/text-blocks.php#L319
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/0d627ee7-1175-4621-a477-1e9ec2d05eee?source=cve



