CVE-2023-4893: Aramk Crayon-Syntax-Highlighter

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

The Crayon Syntax Highlighter plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Server Side Request Forgery via the 'crayon' shortcode in versions up to, and including, 2.8.4. This can allow authenticated attackers with contributor-level permissions or above to make web requests to arbitrary locations originating from the web application and can be used to query and modify information from internal services.

Affected products

• Aramk Crayon-Syntax-Highlighter: up to and including 2.8.4

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