CVE-2023-5137

4.8 mediumEPSS 0.4%

Medium (4.8) in shooflysolutions simply excerpts. EPSS 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The Simply Excerpts WordPress plugin through 1.4 does not sanitize and escape some fields in the plugin settings, which could allow high-privilege users such as an administrator to inject arbitrary web scripts even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed (for example in a multisite setup).

Severity

CVSS 3.1

4.8 medium

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 36% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-79
Published: 2023-12-04
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

shooflysolutions:simply_excerpts

References

https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/79b79e9c-ea4f-4188-a1b5-61dda0b5d434
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/79b79e9c-ea4f-4188-a1b5-61dda0b5d434

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