CVE-2023-1661: Display Post Meta, Term Meta, Comment Meta, And User Meta Project Display Post Meta, Term Meta, Comment Meta, And User Meta

Medium severity, CVSS 5.4. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The Display post meta, term meta, comment meta, and user meta plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via post metadata in versions up to, and including, 1.0.0 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with contributor-level permissions and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

Affected products

• Display Post Meta, Term Meta, Comment Meta, And User Meta Project Display Post Meta, Term Meta, Comment Meta, And User Meta: up to and including 0.4.1

Published 2023-05-31. Last modified 2026-06-17.