CVE-2023-5745: Halgatewood Reusable Text Blocks

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

The Reusable Text Blocks plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'text-blocks' shortcode in versions up to, and including, 1.5.3 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers with author-level and above permissions to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

Affected products

• Halgatewood Reusable Text Blocks: up to and including 1.5.3

Published 2023-10-25. Last modified 2026-06-17.