CVE-2023-5980 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

The BSK Forms Blacklist WordPress plugin before 3.7 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.

The EPSS score is 0.00078.

Exploitation poc

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

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

BSK Forms Blacklist

unaffected

Version	Status	Constraints
`0`	affected	< 3.7

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:bannersky:bsk_forms_blacklist:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*

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Project Subscriptions

Vendors	Products
Bannersky Subscribe	Bsk Forms Blacklist Subscribe

Advisories

No advisories yet.

Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.

Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

References

Link	Providers
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/b621261b-ae18-4853-9ace-7b773810529a

History

Thu, 17 Apr 2025 21:15:00 +0000

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

Projects

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MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: WPScan

Published: 2023-12-26T18:33:13.444Z

Updated: 2025-04-17T20:35:38.347Z

Reserved: 2023-11-07T03:31:48.778Z

Link: CVE-2023-5980

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-02T08:14:25.128Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2023-12-26T19:15:08.167

Modified: 2025-04-17T21:15:48.250

Link: CVE-2023-5980

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

CWE-79

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