CVE-2023-0899: Wp Live Chat Shoutbox Project Wp Live Chat Shoutbox

Medium severity, CVSS 6.1. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The Steveas WP Live Chat Shoutbox WordPress plugin through 1.4.2 does not sanitise and escape a parameter before outputting it back in the Shoutbox, leading to Stored Cross-Site Scripting which could be used against high privilege users such as admins.

Affected products

• Wp Live Chat Shoutbox Project Wp Live Chat Shoutbox: up to and including 1.4.2

Published 2023-04-24. Last modified 2026-06-17.