# CVE-2023-0380: Easy Digital Downloads < 3.1.0.5 - Contributor+ Stored XSS

> Contributors can inject malicious scripts via block options in Easy Digital Downloads, leading to stored XSS attacks against site visitors.

- **Severity:** Medium 5.4 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** A user has to click or open something
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 21 Feb 2023
- **Updated:** 14 Mar 2025
- **Also known as:** GHSA-gx84-73xf-rvpg

## What is CVE-2023-0380?

CVE-2023-0380 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in Unknown Easy Digital Downloads, published on 21 Feb 2023. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

### Official description

The Easy Digital Downloads WordPress plugin before 3.1.0.5 does not validate and escape some of its block options before outputting them back in a page/post where the block is embed, which could allow users with the contributor role and above to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks.

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2023-0380?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Sandhillsdev Easy Digital Downloads.

## How do I fix CVE-2023-0380?

No fix has been published for CVE-2023-0380 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2023-0380 being exploited?

It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2023-0380 exists.

## Other vulnerabilities in Unknown Easy Digital Downloads

- [CVE-2023-23489](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-23489/): SQL injection in Easy Digital Downloads WordPress Plugin (critical 9.8)
- [CVE-2024-32100](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-32100/): WordPress Easy Digital Downloads plugin <= 3.2.11 - Sensitive Data Exposure vulnerability (medium 5.3)
- [CVE-2024-31113](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-31113/): WordPress Easy Digital Downloads plugin <= 3.2.11 - Cross Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability (medium 4.3)
- [CVE-2024-31293](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-31293/): WordPress Easy Digital Downloads plugin <= 3.2.6 - Cross Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability (medium 4.3)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2023-0380 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2023-0380 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in Unknown Easy Digital Downloads, published on 21 Feb 2023. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Exploitation: It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2023-0380 exists.

Affected product: Unknown Easy Digital Downloads. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-0380/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-0380/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-0380
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-0380
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2023-0380

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-0380/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.