What is CVE-2023-5745?

CVE-2023-5745 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Halgatewood Reusable Text Blocks, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2023-10-25.

How severe is CVE-2023-5745?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.

Is CVE-2023-5745 known to be exploited?

1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

XSS in Halgatewood Reusable Text Blocks

CVE-2023-5745

The Reusable Text Blocks plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'text-blocks' 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 author-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)

EPSS: 0.004 (36.0th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N.

Affected products

Halgatewood Reusable_text_blocks
Richardgabriel Reusable Text Blocks — versions 0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting

Public proof-of-concept exploits

20142995/nuclei-templates

References

security@wordfence.com (Third Party Advisory)
security@wordfence.com (Release Notes)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2023-5745?: CVE-2023-5745 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Halgatewood Reusable Text Blocks, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2023-10-25.
How severe is CVE-2023-5745?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.
Is CVE-2023-5745 known to be exploited?: 1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.