CVE-2023-5137: Shooflysolutions Simply Excerpts

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

The Simply Excerpts WordPress plugin through 1.4 does not sanitize and escape some fields in the plugin settings, which could allow high-privilege users such as an administrator to inject arbitrary web scripts even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed (for example in a multisite setup).

Affected products

• Shooflysolutions Simply Excerpts: up to and including 1.4

Published 2023-12-04. Last modified 2026-06-17.