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.
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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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Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: Wordfence

Published:

Updated: 2026-04-08T17:05:55.141Z

Reserved: 2023-09-14T14:30:16.613Z

Link: CVE-2023-4963

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-02T07:44:53.585Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2023-09-15T03:15:09.187

Modified: 2026-04-08T18:18:20.860

Link: CVE-2023-4963

cve-icon Redhat

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