CVE-2023-0143 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

The Send PDF for Contact Form 7 WordPress plugin before 0.9.9.2 does not validate and escape some of its shortcode attributes before outputting them back in the page, which could allow users with a role as low as contributor to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks which could be used against high privilege users such as admins.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required Low

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 0.00547.

Exploitation poc

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

Vendors	Products
Send Pdf For Contact Form 7 Project	Send Pdf For Contact Form 7

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:send_pdf_for_contact_form_7_project:send_pdf_for_contact_form_7:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2023-12233	The Send PDF for Contact Form 7 WordPress plugin before 0.9.9.2 does not validate and escape some of its shortcode attributes before outputting them back in the page, which could allow users with a role as low as contributor to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks which could be used against high privilege users such as admins.

Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.

Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

References

Link	Providers
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/c4cd3d98-9678-49cb-9d1a-551ef8a810b9

History

Tue, 25 Mar 2025 21:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'poc', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: WPScan

Published: 2023-02-06T19:59:17.384Z

Updated: 2025-03-25T20:40:57.442Z

Reserved: 2023-01-10T03:05:57.754Z

Link: CVE-2023-0143

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-02T05:02:44.140Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2023-02-06T20:15:13.120

Modified: 2025-03-25T21:15:40.143

Link: CVE-2023-0143

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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