CVE-2023-5955

2023-12-1120:15:07

CWE-79

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wordpress

plugin

vulnerability

contact form email

cve-2023-5955

stored cross-site scripting

bypassing

unfiltered_html

4.8 Medium

CVSS3

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

HIGH

User Interaction

REQUIRED

Scope

CHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

LOW

Integrity Impact

LOW

Availability Impact

NONE

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

0.0004 Low

EPSS

Percentile

14.2%

JSON

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)