Stored Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability in Copy Anything to Clipboard Plugin for WordPress

CVE-2023-5086

What is CVE-2023-5086?

The Copy Anything to Clipboard plugin for WordPress suffers from a Stored Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability that arises from insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user-supplied data via the 'copy' shortcode. When this vulnerability is exploited by authenticated users with contributor-level access or higher, they can inject malicious web scripts into pages. These scripts will execute whenever other users access the affected pages, potentially compromising user data and session integrity.

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