🛡️ CVE-2023-5335
🟡 CVSS 6.4 — Medium ⚠️ Exploit Public CWE-79 NVD
6.4
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

The Buzzsprout Podcasting plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'buzzsprout' shortcode in versions up to, and including, 1.8.4 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.

Details

Severity MEDIUM
CVSS Score 6.4
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CWE CWE-79
Public Exploit ⚠️ Yes
Source NVD
Published 2023-10-30
Updated 2026-06-08
Modified 2026-04-08
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
buzzsprout 1.8.4

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