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CVE-2023-5468: Slick Contact Forms <= 1.3.7 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Shortcode

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.4 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: none known
• Published: 2023-10-10 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

The Slick Contact Forms plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'dcscf-link' shortcode in versions up to, and including, 1.3.7 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers with contributor-level and above permissions to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

Affected products

• remix4 Slick Contact Forms: through 1.3.7

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/slick-contact-forms/tags/1.3.7/dcwp_slick_contact.php#L71
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/22c63226-2bc6-40be-a5d1-1bd169fc78b8?source=cve
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/slick-contact-forms/tags/1.3.7/dcwp_slick_contact.php#L71
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/22c63226-2bc6-40be-a5d1-1bd169fc78b8?source=cve

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