CVE-2023-5126

medium

Description

The Delete Me plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'plugin_delete_me' shortcode in versions up to, and including, 3.0 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. The shortcode is not displayed to administrators, so it cannot be used against administrator users.

References

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/7a5123a7-8eb4-481e-88fe-6310be37a077?source=cve

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/2994298/delete-me#file2

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/delete-me/tags/3.0/inc/shortcode.php#L83

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2023-10-25

Updated: 2026-06-17

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:N

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.4

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00116