{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 1 product.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-5161 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"No fix has been published for CVE-2023-5161 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.","what":"CVE-2023-5161 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in wpcalc Modal Window – create popup modal window, published on 26 Sep 2023. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2023-5161 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2023-5161 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in wpcalc Modal Window – create popup modal window, published on 26 Sep 2023. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-5161 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected product: wpcalc Modal Window – create popup modal window. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.\n\nTask:\n1. 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.\n2. 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.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-5161/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-5161/index.md)","id":"CVE-2023-5161","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-5161/index.md","name":"CVE-2023-5161","record":{"aliases":["GHSA-q973-4w77-q8w6"],"analysis":{"component_type":"cms_plugin","fix_type":"upgrade","impacts":["code_execution"],"network_reachable":"yes","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"WordPress plugin","requires_auth":"low_privilege","summary":"Authenticated contributors can inject arbitrary scripts via shortcodes in the Modal Window plugin, leading to stored XSS execution for other users.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"xss"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"Wordfence","cpe":[{"product":"modal_window","vendor":"wow-company"}],"cvss":{"score":6.4,"severity":"medium","source":"cna","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N","version":"3.1"},"cwes":[{"id":"CWE-79","name":"Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation"}],"description":"The Modal Window plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via shortcodes in versions up to, and including, 5.3.5 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.","ecosystems":[],"exploits":{"exploitdb":0,"first_seen":null,"github_poc":0,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":0,"nuclei":0,"refs":[],"tier":"none_known"},"has_fix":null,"headline":"Modal Window \u003c= 5.3.5 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Shortcode","id":"CVE-2023-5161","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":null,"products":[],"type":"xss","year":"2023"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":5,"next":{"headline":"Options for Twenty Seventeen \u003c= 2.5.0 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Shortcode","id":"CVE-2023-5162"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"Full name disclosure via team top membership with Show Full Name option disabled","id":"CVE-2023-5160"},"products":["Modal Window – create popup modal window"],"published":"2023-09-26","related":[{"cvss_score":8.8,"headline":"Modal Window \u003c 5.2.2 - RFI leading to RCE via CSRF","id":"CVE-2021-25051","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2022-01-10"},{"cvss_score":6.5,"headline":"WordPress Modal Window – create popup modal window plugin \u003c= 6.0.3 - Cross Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability","id":"CVE-2024-43346","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2024-08-18"},{"cvss_score":6.4,"headline":"Modal Window \u003c= 6.1.5 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via iframeBox Shortcode","id":"CVE-2025-0897","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2025-02-20"},{"cvss_score":6.4,"headline":"Cross-site scripting in Modal Window – create popup modal window","id":"CVE-2024-2457","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2024-04-09"},{"cvss_score":5.9,"headline":"Modal Window \u003c 5.3.10 - Modal Deletion via CSRF","id":"CVE-2024-3472","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2024-05-02"},{"cvss_score":5.4,"headline":"WordPress Modal Window Plugin \u003c= 6.1.4 - Cross Site Request Forgery (CSRF) to Settings Change vulnerability","id":"CVE-2025-24717","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2025-01-24"}],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"US public information, NVD API terms","name":"NVD"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CWE Terms of Use","name":"CWE (MITRE)"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":"no","exploitation":"none","technical_impact":"partial"},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2026-04-08","vendors":["wpcalc"]},"summary":"Authenticated contributors can inject arbitrary scripts via shortcodes in the Modal Window plugin, leading to stored XSS execution for other users.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-5161/"}