CVE-2023-5231

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Magic Action Box plugin for WordPress versions up to, and including, 2.17.2

Description The issue is related to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via shortcodes due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user-supplied attributes. This allows 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.

Recommendations For Magic Action Box plugin for WordPress versions up to, and including, 2.17.2, update to a version higher than 2.17.2 to resolve the issue. As a temporary workaround, consider restricting contributor-level and above permissions to minimize the risk of exploitation.