CVE-2023-0169 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

The Zoho Forms WordPress plugin before 3.0.1 does not validate and escape some of its shortcode attributes before outputting them back in a page/post where the shortcode is embed, which could allow users with the contributor role and above to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required Low

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
Zohocorp	Zoho Forms

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:zohocorp:zoho_forms:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*

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References

Link	Providers
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/178d71f2-4666-4f7e-ada5-cb72a50fd663

History

Fri, 21 Mar 2025 18:15:00 +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: 2023-02-13T14:32:11.933Z

Updated: 2025-03-21T18:03:11.629Z

Reserved: 2023-01-11T03:09:16.304Z

Link: CVE-2023-0169

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-02T05:02:44.043Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2023-02-13T15:15:20.997

Modified: 2025-03-21T18:15:28.800

Link: CVE-2023-0169

Redhat

No data.

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