CVE-2023-0371: Embedsocial

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

The EmbedSocial WordPress plugin before 1.1.28 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

• Embedsocial Embedsocial: before 1.1.28 (fixed in 1.1.28)

Published 2023-02-21. Last modified 2026-06-17.