cvelist/2023/5xxx/CVE-2023-5291.json

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        "ID": "CVE-2023-5291",
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        "STATE": "PUBLIC"
    },
    "description": {
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                "lang": "eng",
                "value": "The Blog Filter plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'AWL-BlogFilter' shortcode in versions up to, and including, 1.5.3 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."
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                        "lang": "eng",
                        "value": "CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')"
                    }
                ]
            }
        ]
    },
    "affects": {
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                {
                    "vendor_name": "awordpresslife",
                    "product": {
                        "product_data": [
                            {
                                "product_name": "Blog Filter \u2013 Advanced Post Filtering with Categories Or Tags, Post Portfolio Gallery, Blog Design Template, Post Layout",
                                "version": {
                                    "version_data": [
                                        {
                                            "version_affected": "<=",
                                            "version_name": "*",
                                            "version_value": "1.5.3"
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                                }
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                }
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    "references": {
        "reference_data": [
            {
                "url": "https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/b95c1bf7-bb05-44d3-a185-7e38e62b7201?source=cve",
                "refsource": "MISC",
                "name": "https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/b95c1bf7-bb05-44d3-a185-7e38e62b7201?source=cve"
            },
            {
                "url": "https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/blog-filter/tags/1.5.3/blog-filter-output.php#L128",
                "refsource": "MISC",
                "name": "https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/blog-filter/tags/1.5.3/blog-filter-output.php#L128"
            },
            {
                "url": "https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/2974261/blog-filter#file54",
                "refsource": "MISC",
                "name": "https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/2974261/blog-filter#file54"
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    "credits": [
        {
            "lang": "en",
            "value": "Lana Codes"
        }
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            {
                "version": "3.1",
                "vectorString": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N",
                "baseScore": 6.4,
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            }
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