Animated Counters, CVE-2023-5774

CVE, Research URL: CVE-2023-5774
Home page URL: Security reports for Animated Counters
Application: Animated Counters
Published on: Oct 27, 2023
Research Description: The Animated Counters plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's shortcode(s) in all versions up to, and including, 1.7 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: Min -, max 1.8.
Status: vulnerable