cve/2023/CVE-2023-0212.md

### [CVE-2023-0212](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-0212)
![](https://img.shields.io/static/v1?label=Product&message=Advanced%20Recent%20Posts&color=blue)
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![](https://img.shields.io/static/v1?label=Vulnerability&message=CWE-79%20Cross-Site%20Scripting%20(XSS)&color=brighgreen)

### Description

The Advanced Recent Posts WordPress plugin through 0.6.14 does not validate and escape some of its shortcode attributes before outputting them back in a page/post where the shortcode is embed, which could allow users with the contributor role and above to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks.

### POC

#### Reference
- https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/5fdd44aa-7f3f-423a-9fb0-dc9dc36f33a3

#### Github
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