CVE-2023-0372: Embedsocial Embedstories

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

The EmbedStories WordPress plugin before 0.7.5 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 Embedstories: before 0.7.5 (fixed in 0.7.5)

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