What is CVE-2023-5085?

CVE-2023-5085 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Advanced Menu Widget Project, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 6.4/10. Published 2023-10-25.

How severe is CVE-2023-5085?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.4 out of 10.

XSS in Advanced Menu Widget Project

CVE-2023-5085

The Advanced Menu Widget plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'advMenu' shortcode in versions up to, and including, 0.4.1 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.

Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)

Published 2023-10-25 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.4 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.004 (26.6th percentile), scored 2026-10-05.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 27th percentile — 26.6% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.004 · newest: 0.004 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Advanced Menu Widget Project
Johnnypea Advanced Menu Widget — versions 0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting

References

www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/5da2dac6-940c-419e-853f-6cfd5… (Third Party Advisory)
plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/advanced-menu-widget/trunk/class-advanced-me… (Patch)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2023-5085?: CVE-2023-5085 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Advanced Menu Widget Project, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 6.4/10. Published 2023-10-25.
How severe is CVE-2023-5085?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.4 out of 10.