CVE-2023-5971 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

The Save as PDF Plugin by Pdfcrowd WordPress plugin before 3.2.0 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)

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required High

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.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

Vendors	Products
Pdfcrowd	Save As Pdf

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:pdfcrowd:save_as_pdf:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*

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References

Link	Providers
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/03a201d2-535e-4574-afac-791dcf23e6e1/

History

Wed, 14 May 2025 17:45:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
First Time appeared		Pdfcrowd Pdfcrowd save As Pdf
Weaknesses		CWE-79
CPEs		cpe:2.3:a:pdfcrowd:save_as_pdf::::::wordpress::*
Vendors & Products		Pdfcrowd Pdfcrowd save As Pdf

Mon, 12 Aug 2024 21:00:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		cvssV3_1 `{'score': 4.8, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N'}`

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: WPScan

Published: 2024-05-09T06:00:02.319Z

Updated: 2024-08-12T19:37:42.596Z

Reserved: 2023-11-06T18:46:09.209Z

Link: CVE-2023-5971

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-02T08:14:25.115Z

NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2024-05-14T14:31:08.030

Modified: 2025-05-14T17:19:26.550

Link: CVE-2023-5971

Redhat

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