Description
The Slick Contact Forms plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'dcscf-link' shortcode in versions up to, and including, 1.3.7 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. 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: 2023-10-10
Score: 6.4 Medium
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Remediation

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Advisories
Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2023-57782 The Slick Contact Forms plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'dcscf-link' shortcode in versions up to, and including, 1.3.7 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. 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

Fri, 10 Apr 2026 04:15:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


Wed, 08 Apr 2026 17:00:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Title Slick Contact Forms <= 1.3.7 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Shortcode
Weaknesses CWE-79

Subscriptions

Leechesnutt Slick Contact Forms
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: Wordfence

Published:

Updated: 2026-04-08T16:41:46.548Z

Reserved: 2023-10-09T15:56:45.370Z

Link: CVE-2023-5468

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-02T07:59:44.761Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2023-10-10T05:15:09.550

Modified: 2026-04-08T17:17:08.560

Link: CVE-2023-5468

cve-icon Redhat

No data.

cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses