CVE-2023-1917 — Cross-site Scripting in Powerpress Podcasting Plugin BY Blubrry

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting4 documents4 sources
Severity
5.4MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
0.1%
top 69.65%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
2
Blubrry Powerpress Podcasting Plugin BY BlubrryBlubrry Powerpress
Timeline
PublishedJun 9
Latest updateApr 10

Description

The PowerPress plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's shortcode(s) in versions up to, and including, 10.0 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. NOTE: A partial fix for the issue was introduced in version 10.0…

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:NExploitability: 2.3 | Impact: 2.7

Affected Packages2 packages

Patches

Patch: plugins.trac.wordpress.org ↗Patch: plugins.trac.wordpress.org ↗Patch: plugins.trac.wordpress.org ↗

🔴Vulnerability Details

3
VulDB
PowerPress Plugin up to 10.0 on WordPress Shortcode cross site scripting↗2026-04-10
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GHSA
GHSA-pprf-mh8g-67wh: The PowerPress plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's shortcode(s) in versions up to, and including, 10↗2023-06-09
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CVEList
PowerPress <= 10.0 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Shortcode↗2023-06-09
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CVE-2023-1917 — Cross-site Scripting | cvebase