CVE-2023-5659 - CVE House
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Status published Medium CVE-2023-5659

Interact: Embed A Quiz On Your Site <= 3.0.7 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Shortcode

Vulnerability Description

The Interact: Embed A Quiz On Your Site plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's 'interact-quiz' shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 3.0.7 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.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

The following person or organization is credited with identifying this vulnerability, as recorded in the NVD database:

  • István Márton

Affected Vendor

tryinteract

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Affected Software

Interact: Embed A Quiz On Your Site
Vulnerable Versions:
0

Timeline

Official Publish: November 7th, 2023
Last Modified: April 8th, 2026
Added to House: July 22nd, 2026

CVSS Vectors

V3: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Weaknesses (CWE)