Security Advisory

CVE-2023-5291

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2023-10-04 01:52:39
Last updated 2026-04-08 17:18:00
Assigner Wordfence
State PUBLISHED

Description

The Blog Filter plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via AWL-BlogFilter 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 contributor-level and above permissions to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.