The WS Facebook Like Box Widget plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'ws-facebook-likebox' shortcode in versions up to, and including, 5.0 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.
Advisories
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EUVD |
EUVD-2023-54799 | The WS Facebook Like Box Widget for WordPress plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'ws-facebook-likebox' shortcode in versions up to, and including, 5.0 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. |
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History
Wed, 08 Apr 2026 17:45:00 +0000
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| Description | The WS Facebook Like Box Widget for WordPress plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'ws-facebook-likebox' shortcode in versions up to, and including, 5.0 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. | The WS Facebook Like Box Widget plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'ws-facebook-likebox' shortcode in versions up to, and including, 5.0 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. |
| Title | WS Facebook Like Box Widget <= 5.0 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Shortcode | |
| Weaknesses | CWE-79 |
Wed, 05 Feb 2025 20:15:00 +0000
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: Wordfence
Published:
Updated: 2026-04-08T17:05:55.141Z
Reserved: 2023-09-14T14:30:16.613Z
Link: CVE-2023-4963
Updated: 2024-08-02T07:44:53.585Z
Status : Modified
Published: 2023-09-15T03:15:09.187
Modified: 2026-04-08T18:18:20.860
Link: CVE-2023-4963
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Weaknesses
EUVD