CVE-2023-0170 is a Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability affecting the Html5 Audio Player WordPress plugin prior to version 2.1.12. This medium-severity flaw (CVSS 5.4) allows authenticated users with contributor roles or higher to inject malicious scripts due to insufficient validation of shortcode attributes. While the attack requires user interaction (UI:R) and low privileges (PR:L), successful exploitation could lead to limited confidentiality and integrity impacts. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion surrounding this vulnerability.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
< 2.1.12CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:bplugins:html5_audio_player:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
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