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Kanban Boards for WordPress < 2.5.21 - Admin+ Stored XSS

Type: advisorySources: OSV

The Kanban Boards for WordPress plugin before 2.5.21 does not sanitise and escape some of its settings, which could allow high privilege users such as admin to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed (for example in multisite setup)

Products
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Affected versions
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Fixed versions
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CVEs
CVE-2023-0873
Confirmed fixed CVEs
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Updated in this feed
5 Nov 2026, 04:13 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

Kanban Boards for WordPress < 2.5.21 - Admin+ Stored XSS

core-osv · Original source

Published 27 Jun 2023, 13:17 UTC

The Kanban Boards for WordPress plugin before 2.5.21 does not sanitise and escape some of its settings, which could allow high privilege users such as admin to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed (for example in multisite setup)

osv:CVE-2023-0873
Complete source record
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  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2023-0873",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "Kanban Boards for WordPress < 2.5.21 - Admin+ Stored XSS",
    "summary": "The Kanban Boards for WordPress plugin before 2.5.21 does not sanitise and escape some of its settings, which could allow high privilege users such as admin to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed (for example in multisite setup)",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2023-0873",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "unknown",
    "structured": {
      "id": "CVE-2023-0873",
      "aliases": [
        "CVE-2023-0873"
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      "affected": [
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          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-28T02:30:42.442193248Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
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        "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2023/0xxx/CVE-2023-0873.json",
        "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-0873",
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                  }
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              }
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      }
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    "security_relevant": true,
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  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 510182,
  "published_at": "2023-06-27T13:17:15.735+00:00"
}