CVE-2023-5200: The flowpaper plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'flipbook' shortcode in versions up to, and including, 2.0.3 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escap

medium Affects flowpaper-lite-pdf-flipbook (WordPress plugin). Feed 2026.10.29.1, updated 2026-10-28; published ; advisory modified .

The flowpaper plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'flipbook' shortcode in versions up to, and including, 2.0.3 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escap

Package
flowpaper-lite-pdf-flipbook (WordPress plugin) WordPress
Affected versions
<=2.0.3
Fixed in
no fix recorded
Severity
medium  CVSS 6.4
Exploitation
not on CISA KEV · EPSS 1% (44.5th percentile)
Published
2023-10-20
Source
nvd

References

CWE-79
NVD recordflowpaper-lite-pdf-flipbook (WordPress plugin) advisories

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