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CVE-2023-2718Contact Form Email < 1.3.38 - Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting
- 5.4MediumCVSS base score
- 0.51%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 56% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- YesPublic exploitsa reference or SSVC says so
Description
The Contact Form Email WordPress plugin before 1.3.38 does not escape submitted values before displaying them in the HTML, leading to a Stored XSS vulnerability.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. A reference of the record is tagged as an exploit.
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References tagged exploit1 reference
- https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/8ad824a6-2d49-4f02-8252-393c59aa9705 (opens in a new tab)exploitvdb-entrytechnical-descriptionx_transferred
Timeline
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By WPScan
- 28 days later
· 28 days later
Published
- 14 months later
· 14 months later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Medium5.4 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.51% · top 56% of all CVEs (15 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.4.
Affected products
- affected < 1.3.38
References
References2
- https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/8ad824a6-2d49-4f02-8252-393c59aa9705 (opens in a new tab)exploitvdb-entrytechnical-descriptionx_transferred
- https://www.onvio.nl/nieuws/research-day-discovering-vulnerabilities-in-wordpress-plugins (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2023-34182 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2023-2718)Record last updated .