CVE-2023-5468

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.

CVSS v3 6.4 MEDIUM

6.4^/10

CVSS v3 : MEDIUM

Vector :

Exploitability : 3.1 / Impact : 2.7

Attack Vector NETWORK

Attack Complexity LOW

Privileges Required LOW

User Interaction NONE

Confidentiality Impact LOW

Integrity Impact LOW

Availability Impact NONE

Scope CHANGED

References

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

Configurations

Configuration 1 (hide)

cpe:2.3:a:leechesnutt:slick_contact_forms:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*

History

No history.

Information

Published : 2023-10-10 05:15

Updated : 2026-06-17 06:48

NVD link : CVE-2023-5468

Mitre link : CVE-2023-5468

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2023-5468

JSON object : View

Products Affected

leechesnutt

slick_contact_forms

CWE

CWE-79

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

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