CVE-2023-5955 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

The Contact Form Email WordPress plugin before 1.3.44 does not sanitise and escape some of its settings, which could allow high privilege users such as admin to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed (for example in multisite setup)

Published: 2023-12-11

Score: 6.1 Medium

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 Email

unaffected

Version	Status	Constraints
`0`	affected	< 1.3.44

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:codepeople:contact_form_email:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*

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Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

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Tracking

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Advisories

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No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Changed

Confidentiality Impact Low

Integrity Impact Low

Availability Impact None

User Interaction Required

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00081.

Exploitation poc

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

References

Link	Providers
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/1b5fce7e-14fc-4548-8747-96fdd58fdd98

History

Tue, 01 Oct 2024 15:30:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics	cvssV3_1 `{'score': 4.8, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N'}`	ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'poc', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}` cvssV3_1 `{'score': 6.1, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N'}`

Subscriptions

Codepeople Contact Form Email

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: WPScan

Published: 2023-12-11T19:30:26.587Z

Updated: 2024-10-01T14:35:50.973Z

Reserved: 2023-11-03T17:01:30.907Z

Link: CVE-2023-5955

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-02T08:14:25.148Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2023-12-11T20:15:07.367

Modified: 2024-11-21T08:42:51.403

Link: CVE-2023-5955

Redhat

No data.

OpenCVE Enrichment

No data.

Weaknesses

CWE-79

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