Vulnerability CVE-2023-5468


Published: 2023-10-10

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.

Type:

CWE-79

(Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting'))

 References:
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/22c63226-2bc6-40be-a5d1-1bd169fc78b8?source=cve
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/slick-contact-forms/tags/1.3.7/dcwp_slick_contact.php#L71

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