CVE-2023-5980: The BSK Forms Blacklist WordPress plugin before 3.7 does not sanitise and escape some of its settings, which could allow high privilege users such as admin to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attac

medium Affects bsk-forms-blacklist (WordPress plugin). Feed 2026.10.29.4, updated 2026-10-29; published ; advisory modified .

The BSK Forms Blacklist WordPress plugin before 3.7 does not sanitise and escape some of its settings, which could allow high privilege users such as admin to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attac

Package
bsk-forms-blacklist (WordPress plugin) WordPress
Affected versions
<3.7
Fixed in
3.7
Severity
medium  CVSS 4.8
Exploitation
not on CISA KEV · EPSS 0% (31.9th percentile)
Published
2023-12-26
Source
nvd

References

CWE-79
NVD recordbsk-forms-blacklist (WordPress plugin) advisories

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