What is CVE-2023-5209?

CVE-2023-5209 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Booking-Wp-Plugin Bookly, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 4.8/10. Published 2023-11-27.

How severe is CVE-2023-5209?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.8 out of 10.

Is CVE-2023-5209 known to be exploited?

6 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

XSS in Booking-Wp-Plugin Bookly

CVE-2023-5209

The WordPress Online Booking and Scheduling Plugin WordPress plugin before 22.5 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)

Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)

EPSS: 0.005 (36.9th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 4.8 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N.

Affected products

Booking-wp-plugin Bookly
Unknown Wordpress Online Booking And Scheduling Plugin — versions 0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting

Public proof-of-concept exploits

References

contact@wpscan.com (Exploit, technical-description, Third Party Advisory, exploit, vdb-entry)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2023-5209?: CVE-2023-5209 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Booking-Wp-Plugin Bookly, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 4.8/10. Published 2023-11-27.
How severe is CVE-2023-5209?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.8 out of 10.
Is CVE-2023-5209 known to be exploited?: 6 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.