CVE-2023-5005 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

The Autocomplete Location field Contact Form 7 WordPress plugin before 3.0, autocomplete-location-field-contact-form-7-pro WordPress plugin before 2.0 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)

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required High

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.

Exploitation poc

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

Vendors	Products
Codesmade	Autocomplete Location Field Contact Form 7

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:codesmade:autocomplete_location_field_contact_form_7:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*

Configuration 2 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:codesmade:autocomplete_location_field_contact_form_7:*:*:*:*:pro:wordpress:*:*

No data.

References

Link	Providers
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/bfb174d4-7658-4883-a682-d06bda89ec44

History

Wed, 07 May 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: 2023-12-18T20:07:55.051Z

Updated: 2025-05-07T20:35:11.699Z

Reserved: 2023-09-15T20:36:30.114Z

Link: CVE-2023-5005

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-02T07:44:53.957Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2023-12-18T20:15:08.500

Modified: 2025-05-07T21:15:59.457

Link: CVE-2023-5005

Redhat

No data.

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