CVE-2023-1602: Kaizencoders Short Url

Medium severity, CVSS 4.8. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The Short URL plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'comment' parameter due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping in versions up to, and including, 1.6.4. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with administrator-level permissions and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

Affected products

• Kaizencoders Short Url: up to and including 1.6.4

Published 2023-06-29. Last modified 2026-06-17.