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WordPress Plugin: wp-flipclock: CVE-2023-23728: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

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Severity

CVSS

(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:N)

Published

Jan 20, 2023

Added

May 15, 2025

Modified

Apr 29, 2026

Description

The WP Flipclock plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the flipclock display settings in versions up to, and including,1.7.4 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

Solution

wp-flipclock-plugin-cve-2023-23728

References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-23728
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/376404a5-176e-4c73-8281-27b138218879?source=api-prod
https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2023-27814
CVE-2023-23728
https://attackerkb.com/topics/CVE-2023-23728
CWE-79
EUVD-EUVD-2023-27814

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