What is CVE-2023-5980?

CVE-2023-5980 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Bannersky Bsk Forms Blacklist, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 4.8/10. Published 2023-12-26.

How severe is CVE-2023-5980?

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

Is CVE-2023-5980 known to be exploited?

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

XSS in Bannersky Bsk Forms Blacklist

CVE-2023-5980

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).

Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)

EPSS: 0.004 (30.6th 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

Bannersky Bsk_forms_blacklist
Unknown Bsk Forms Blacklist — versions 0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting

Public proof-of-concept exploits

20142995/nuclei-templates

References

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

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2023-5980?: CVE-2023-5980 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Bannersky Bsk Forms Blacklist, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 4.8/10. Published 2023-12-26.
How severe is CVE-2023-5980?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.8 out of 10.
Is CVE-2023-5980 known to be exploited?: 1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.