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CVE-2023-5955: Contact Form Email < 1.3.44 - Editor+ Stored Cross-Site Scripting

Noroxi assessment

Priority: Monitor (action score 19/100)

  • The sources we track (CISA KEV, Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei, GitHub) show no public exploit code or exploitation in the wild.
  • Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days: 0.45% (FIRST EPSS).
  • Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it. Administrator privileges are required. A user must open a link or visit a page. No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.
  • Fixed version: Unknown Contact Form Email 1.3.44.

Low priority for now. Upgrade to Unknown Contact Form Email 1.3.44 or later.

Generated automatically from the record's data: CVSS (NVD and CNA), CISA KEV and SSVC, FIRST EPSS, exploit sources, fixed versions. How we calculate it

Primary sources: NVD · CVE.org · FIRST EPSS

The Contact Form Email WordPress plugin before 1.3.44 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)

MediumCVSS 4.8 · v3.1—No exploit Fix available
Published
Dec 11, 2023
Updated
Jun 17, 2026
EPSS
0.4% · 39th percentile

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Action score

19

Monitor

Low priority for now.

CVSS
19 / 40 · 4.8 / 10
CISA KEV
0 / 30 · Not listed
EPSS
0 / 30 · 0.4%

CISA SSVC decision

Exploitation
proof of concept
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial

Vulnrichment: CISA's decision-tree inputs.

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Affected systems

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VendorProduct
codepeoplecontact form email

Affected versions

NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.

  • codepeople contact form emailbefore 1.3.44

Versions reported by the vendor

Affected version ranges reported by the assigning authority (WPScan). Independent of NVD's CPE analysis and usually ahead of it.

  • Unknown Contact Form Email

    • before 1.3.44affected · semver

Same product

codepeople: all records

Other highest-scoring records for the same primary product.

  • CVE-2018-20964The contact-form-to-email plugin before 1.2.66 for WordPress has CSRF.
    35Monitor
  • CVE-2026-112379WordPress Contact Form Email plugin <= 1.3.68 - Cross Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability
    28Monitor
  • CVE-2026-32483WordPress Contact Form Email plugin <= 1.3.63 - Broken Access Control vulnerability
    26Monitor

Published before and after this one in the same product

  • ← EarlierCVE-2021-42361Nov 17, 2021 · Contact Form Email <= 1.3.24 Authenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting
    19Monitor
  • ← EarlierCVE-2023-2718Jun 12, 2023 · Contact Form Email < 1.3.38 - Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting
    21Monitor
  • Later →CVE-2024-31302Apr 10, 2024 · WordPress Contact Form Email plugin <= 1.3.44 - Sensitive Data Exposure vulnerability
    21Monitor

Remediation

Which version to upgrade to

Fix versions compiled from the vendor, package registries and Microsoft. Verify the vendor's note before upgrading.

Product / packageFixed versionSource
Unknown Contact Form Email1.3.44Vendor (CNA)

Exploit status

No known public exploit

No public exploit has been observed yet. That doesn't mean you're safe, only that the bar is a little higher.

Research context

For pentesters and researchers: attack profile, score disagreement, timeline, patch commits, credits, variant and chain candidates, bug bounty scope. All derived from existing data; no exploit code.

Timeline

From publication to today: proof of concept, Metasploit module, CISA KEV and fix record. Dates are as reported by the sources.

No dated events beyond publication.

EPSS, last 120 days

FIRST EPSS daily score; only changes of 0.01 or more are recorded (step chart).

Patch and commit links

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No commit or PR link among the references.

Credits

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Variant candidates

Same product, same weakness class, within 18 months. If the patch missed the root cause, the sibling bug is here.

  • CVE-2023-2718182 days apartContact Form Email < 1.3.38 - Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting
    21Monitor
  • CVE-2025-24727410 days apartWordPress Contact Form to Email Plugin <= 1.3.52 - Cross Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability
    19Monitor

Chain candidates

An authentication bypass and a privilege-requiring bug in the same product, published close together: combined they may become an unauthenticated path.

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Bug bounty scope

No known public program.

Source: bounty-targets-data (public HackerOne, Bugcrowd, Intigriti, YesWeHack listings).

Technical details

Attack conditions

  • Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it.
  • Administrator privileges are required.
  • A user must open a link or visit a page.
  • No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.

If successful

Confidentiality
low · data can be read
Integrity
low · data or configuration can be modified
Availability
none

Impact can extend beyond the vulnerable component (scope changes).

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
High
User interaction
Required
Scope
Changed
Confidentiality impact
Low
Integrity impact
Low
Availability impact
None

Weakness class (CWE)

CWE-79 · Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

nvd-primary

Root cause

User content is inserted into the page as HTML. The browser interprets the content as code rather than data.

The bug in code

The whole CWE-79 class

A representative example of this vulnerability class. Not the vendor's source code; it shows the faulty pattern and its fix.

Vulnerable

ts
commentEl.innerHTML = comment.body;

Fixed

ts
commentEl.textContent = comment.body;

Attack context

MITRE CAPEC attack patterns and ATT&CK techniques for this weakness class (CWE). A starting point for detection rules and threat hunting.

ATT&CK techniques

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