Cyber Resilience

CVE-2023-0273

MediumPublic PoC

Published: 20 March 2023

Published
20 March 2023
Modified
26 February 2025
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score v3.1 5.4 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
EPSS Score 0.0018 39.6th percentile
Risk Priority 11 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2023-0273 is a medium-severity an unspecified weakness vulnerability in Custom Content Shortcode Project Custom Content Shortcode. Its CVSS base score is 5.4 (Medium).

Operationally, ranked at the 39.6th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog; a public proof-of-concept is referenced.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

The Custom Content Shortcode WordPress plugin through 4.0.2 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…

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to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks

CWE(s)
None listed

Related Threats

No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.

Affected Assets

custom content shortcode project
custom content shortcode
≤ 4.0.2

Mitigating Controls

No mitigating controls mapped yet. The per-CVE control annotator has not reached this CVE.

References