CVE-2023-2655 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

The Contact Form by WD WordPress plugin through 1.13.23 does not properly sanitise and escape a parameter before using it in a SQL statement, leading to a SQL injection exploitable by high privilege users such as admin

Published: 2024-01-16

Score: 7.2 High

EPSS: < 1% Very Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

Unknown

Contact Form by WD

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`0`	affected	≤ 1.13.23

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:web-dorado:contact_form_maker:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*

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Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

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Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2023-34121	The Contact Form by WD WordPress plugin through 1.13.23 does not properly sanitise and escape a parameter before using it in a SQL statement, leading to a SQL injection exploitable by high privilege users such as admin

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required High

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact High

Integrity Impact High

Availability Impact High

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00715.

Exploitation poc

Automatable no

Technical Impact total

References

Link	Providers
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/b3f2d38f-8eeb-45e9-bb58-2957e416e1cd/

History

Mon, 02 Jun 2025 20:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'poc', 'Technical Impact': 'total'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

Subscriptions

Web-dorado Contact Form Maker

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: WPScan

Published: 2024-01-16T15:55:22.590Z

Updated: 2025-06-02T15:10:10.234Z

Reserved: 2023-05-11T12:32:48.856Z

Link: CVE-2023-2655

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-02T06:26:09.908Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2024-01-16T16:15:10.830

Modified: 2025-06-02T16:15:24.210

Link: CVE-2023-2655

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

CWE-89

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