Vulnerabilities and security researches forfavorites favorites

Jun 06, 2024

CVE, Research URL: CVE-2023-2304
Home page URL: Security reports for Favorites
Application: Favorites
Date: May 31, 2023
Research Description: The Favorites plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'user_favorites' shortcode in versions up to, and including, 2.3.2 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.
Affected versions: max 2.3.3.
Status: vulnerable

CVE, Research URL: CVE-2024-2948
Home page URL: Security reports for Favorites
Application: Favorites
Date: Mar 30, 2024
Research Description: The Favorites plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's 'user_favorites' shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 2.3.3 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes such as 'no_favorites'. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with contributor-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.
Affected versions: max 2.3.4.
Status: vulnerable

Mar 27, 2025

CVE, Research URL: CVE-2025-1452
Home page URL: Security reports for Favorites
Application: Favorites
Date: Mar 25, 2025
Research Description: The Favorites WordPress plugin before 2.3.5 does not sanitise and escape some of its settings, which could allow high privilege users such as admin to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed (for example in multisite setup).
Affected versions: max 2.3.5.
Status: vulnerable

Nov 11, 2025

CVE, Research URL: CVE-2025-60202
Home page URL: Security reports for Favorites
Application: Favorites
Date: Nov 06, 2025
Research Description: Improper Control of Filename for Include/Require Statement in PHP Program ('PHP Remote File Inclusion') vulnerability in Kyle Phillips Favorites favorites allows PHP Local File Inclusion.This issue affects Favorites: from n/a through <= 2.3.6.
Affected versions: max 2.3.6.
Status: vulnerable