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CVE-2023-5005: Autocomplete Location field Contact Form 7 < 3.0 - Admin+ Store Cross-Site Scripting

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2023-12-18 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

The Autocomplete Location field Contact Form 7 WordPress plugin before 3.0, autocomplete-location-field-contact-form-7-pro WordPress plugin before 2.0 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)

Affected products

• Codesmade Autocomplete Location Field Contact Form 7: before 3.0; before 2.0 — fixed in 2.0, 3.0

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Codesmade Autocomplete Location Field Contact Form 7 2.0, 3.0. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/bfb174d4-7658-4883-a682-d06bda89ec44
• https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/bfb174d4-7658-4883-a682-d06bda89ec44

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