CVE-2023-4890: Designchemical jQuery Accordion Menu Widget

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

The JQuery Accordion Menu Widget plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'dcwp-jquery-accordion' shortcode in versions up to, and including, 3.1.2 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers with contributor-level and above permissions to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

Affected products

• Designchemical jQuery Accordion Menu Widget: up to and including 3.1.2

Published 2023-09-12. Last modified 2026-06-17.