CVE-2023-5362: Spicethemes Carousel, Recent Post Slider And Banner Slider

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

The Carousel, Recent Post Slider and Banner Slider plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'spice_post_slider' shortcode in versions up to, and including, 2.0 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

• Spicethemes Carousel, Recent Post Slider And Banner Slider: before 2.1 (fixed in 2.1)

Published 2023-10-30. Last modified 2026-06-17.