CVE-2023-0071: Shapedplugin Wp Tabs

Medium severity, CVSS 5.4. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The WP Tabs WordPress plugin before 2.1.17 does not validate and escape some of its shortcode attributes before outputting them back in a page/post where the shortcode is embed, which could allow users with the contributor role and above to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks.

Affected products

• Shapedplugin Wp Tabs: before 2.1.17 (fixed in 2.1.17)

Published 2023-01-30. Last modified 2026-06-17.