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Bitly's WordPress Plugin, CVE-2023-5577

CVE, Research URL

CVE-2023-5577

Published on
Nov 07, 2023
Research Description
The Bitly's plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's 'wpbitly' shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 2.7.1 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 2.7.2.
Status
vulnerable