CVE-2023-5162: Webd Options For Twenty Seventeen

Medium severity, CVSS 5.4. EPSS: 0.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The Options for Twenty Seventeen plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'social-links' shortcode in versions up to, and including, 2.5.0 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

• Webd Options For Twenty Seventeen: up to and including 2.5.0

Published 2023-09-27. Last modified 2026-06-17.