🔐 CVE Alert

CVE-2023-5659

MEDIUM 6.4

Interact: Embed A Quiz On Your Site <= 3.0.7 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Shortcode

CVSS Score
6.4
EPSS Score
0.0%
EPSS Percentile
0th

The Interact: Embed A Quiz On Your Site plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's 'interact-quiz' shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 3.0.7 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.

CWE CWE-79
Vendor tryinteract
Product interact: embed a quiz on your site
Published Nov 7, 2023
Last Updated Apr 8, 2026
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CVSS v3 Breakdown

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Attack Vector
Attack Complexity
Privileges Required
User Interaction
Scope
Confidentiality
Integrity
Availability

Affected Versions

tryinteract / Interact: Embed A Quiz On Your Site
0 ≤ 3.0.7

References

NVD ↗ CVE.org ↗ EPSS Data ↗
wordfence.com: https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/69ba1a39-ddb0-4661-8104-d8bb71710e0c?source=cve plugins.trac.wordpress.org: https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/interact-quiz-embed/tags/3.0.7/interact-quiz-embed.php#L53 plugins.trac.wordpress.org: https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/2990262/interact-quiz-embed

Credits

István Márton