Description
The Breakdance plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's custom postmeta output in all versions up to, and including, 1.7.0 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied post meta fields. 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.
Published: 2024-05-06
Score: 6.4 Medium
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Advisories
Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2023-59058 The Breakdance plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's custom postmeta output in all versions up to, and including, 1.7.0 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied post meta fields. 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.
History

Wed, 08 Apr 2026 18:30:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Title Breakdance <= 1.7.0 - Authenticated(Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via custom postmeta
Weaknesses CWE-79

Subscriptions

Breakdance Breakdance
Wordpress Wordpress
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: Wordfence

Published:

Updated: 2026-04-08T17:30:43.449Z

Reserved: 2023-12-15T16:52:21.539Z

Link: CVE-2023-6854

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-02T08:42:08.415Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Awaiting Analysis

Published: 2024-05-06T11:15:46.930

Modified: 2026-04-08T19:19:01.130

Link: CVE-2023-6854

cve-icon Redhat

No data.

cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

Updated: 2025-07-12T22:44:56Z

Weaknesses