CVE-2023-1835 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

The Ninja Forms Contact Form WordPress plugin before 3.6.22 does not properly escape user input before outputting it back in an admin page, leading to a Reflected Cross-Site Scripting which could be used against high privilege users such as admin

Published: 2023-05-15

Score: 6.1 Medium

EPSS: 18.1% Moderate

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

Ninja Forms Contact Form

unaffected

Version	Status	Constraints
`0`	affected	< 3.6.22

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:ninjaforms:ninja_forms:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*

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Remediation

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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 0.18094.

Exploitation poc

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

References

Link	Providers
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/b5fc223c-5ec0-44b2-b2f6-b35f9942d341

History

Tue, 14 Jan 2025 19:15:00 +0000

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

Subscriptions

Ninjaforms Ninja Forms

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: WPScan

Published: 2023-05-15T12:15:46.279Z

Updated: 2025-01-14T18:17:11.781Z

Reserved: 2023-04-04T14:02:11.034Z

Link: CVE-2023-1835

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-02T06:05:26.714Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2023-05-15T13:15:10.463

Modified: 2025-01-14T19:15:28.817

Link: CVE-2023-1835

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

No weakness.

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