CVE-2023-5980
CVSS 3.1 Score 4.8 of 10 (medium)
Details
Published Dec 26, 2023
Updated: Jan 2, 2024
CWE ID 79
Summary
CVE-2023-5980 is a vulnerability affecting the BSK Forms Blacklist plugin for WordPress before version 3.7. This issue arises due to the plugin's failure to sanitize and escape specific settings. As a result, high privilege users, including admins, can execute Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) attacks, bypassing the unfiltered_html capability restriction, even in multisite configurations.
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