Wp Responsive Tabs Horizontal Vertical And Accordion TabsWordPress extension · I13websolution
CVE-2023-24409
Official description Straight from the sourceThe vendor's or NVD's own wording, published unedited. Authoritative, but often terse — it says what broke, rarely what to do.
NVD · uneditedUnauth. Reflected Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in I Thirteen Web Solution WP Responsive Tabs horizontal vertical and accordion Tabs plugin <= 1.1.15 versions.
Technical summary Written by usOur analysis, written from the advisory, the CVSS vector and the affected-version data. It adds context the advisory leaves out, and never invents facts that are not in the source.
dbcve analysis · high confidenceAn unauthenticated reflected cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability exists in the WP Responsive Tabs plugin. The vulnerability allows an attacker to inject malicious JavaScript code through unsanitized user input that gets reflected back in the HTTP response, potentially executing in victim's browsers.
Verify against the referenced sources before acting — the references below are authoritative for this CVE, this summary is not.
Affected products & versions What the vendor confirmedThe version ranges the vendor confirmed as vulnerable. If your version sits inside a range here, treat yourself as exposed until you have upgraded.
NVD · CPE data
Wp Responsive Tabs Horizontal Vertical And Accordion TabsWordPress extension
< 1.1.16CVSS breakdown How the score is builtThe industry scoring standard. It rates how the flaw is reached, what it takes to exploit, and what an attacker gains — the score is derived from those, not the other way round.
From the vector- Attack vector
- Network
- Complexity
- Low
- Privileges
- None
- User interaction
- Required
- Scope
- Changed
- Confidentiality
- Low
- Integrity
- Low
- Availability
- None
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Am I affected? How to checkSteps we derive from the advisory and the affected-version data, so you can decide whether this CVE reaches your setup. They are a guide, not a scan — your own configuration is the authority.
dbcve checksWork through these to decide whether this CVE applies to you.
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Confirm plugin is installedCheck your WordPress site's installed plugins list for 'WP Responsive Tabs Horizontal Vertical And Accordion Tabs' by I13websolutionAffected if The plugin appears in the installed plugins list
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Check installed version numberAccess the plugin settings page or WordPress admin plugins list to view the installed version of WP Responsive TabsAffected if The installed version is lower than 1.1.16 (for example, 1.1.15 or earlier)
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Identify vulnerable parameter endpointReview HTTP requests to your WordPress site that include tab-related parameters (such as tab ID, tab shortcode parameters, or similar user-supplied values) used by the pluginAffected if The plugin processes and reflects URL parameters without server-side sanitization
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Test for reflected XSS behaviorSubmit a benign test payload (such as a simple alphanumeric string) in a suspected vulnerable parameter and examine if it is reflected verbatim in the HTTP response without encodingAffected if User-supplied input is returned in the response without HTML entity encoding (characters like < > " or ' appear unescaped)
If the WP Responsive Tabs plugin is installed and running a version before 1.1.16, the environment is vulnerable to unauthenticated reflected XSS via unsanitized parameters.
Generated from the published advisory. Verify against your own configuration.
Remediation Closing itWhat it takes to close this. Where a vendor fix exists we point at it; where none exists we say so plainly, and can build one. Effort estimates are scoped from the advisory, not from your codebase.
dbcve · scoped1.1.16
Update the WP Responsive Tabs plugin to a version greater than 1.1.15, or implement proper input validation and output encoding at the application layer to sanitize user-supplied parameters before reflecting them in responses.
1.1.16
- Log in to WordPress admin dashboard
- Navigate to Plugins > Installed Plugins
- Locate 'WP Responsive Tabs Horizontal Vertical And Accordion Tabs' in the plugin list
- If an update is available, click 'Update Now' to upgrade to version 1.1.16 or later
- Alternatively, navigate to Plugins > Add New > Upload and reinstall version 1.1.16
- Verify the plugin version shows 1.1.16 or higher after updating
Generated from the published advisory — verify against the referenced sources before acting.
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Scoped from the published advisory
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- Implementation2.0 h
- Testing2.0 h
- Review / QA1.0 h
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References Go to the primary sourcePrimary sources — vendor advisories, patches and trackers. Where our summary and a reference disagree, the reference wins.
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ContributedPeer-ranked notes from engineers who’ve handled CVE-2023-24409 in production — separate from our analysis above.
The advisory tells you what broke. It rarely tells you what actually worked. If you’ve dealt with this one, that detail is what the next engineer is searching for.
- The version that genuinely resolved it — not the one the vendor claimed
- A config change or rule that shut the vector down
- A gotcha in the upgrade path that cost you an afternoon
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