The Instagram for WordPress plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via shortcodes in versions up to, and including, 2.1.6 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 EUVD-2023-57673 The Instagram for WordPress plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via shortcodes in versions up to, and including, 2.1.6 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

Thu, 26 Feb 2026 12:15:00 +0000

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


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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: Wordfence

Published:

Updated: 2025-02-05T19:17:21.937Z

Reserved: 2023-10-03T12:59:14.051Z

Link: CVE-2023-5357

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-02T07:59:44.122Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2023-10-04T02:15:10.163

Modified: 2024-11-21T08:41:36.257

Link: CVE-2023-5357

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cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

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