CVE-2023-5980

Summary

CVE-2023-5980 is a vulnerability affecting the BSK Forms Blacklist plugin for WordPress before version 3.7. This issue arises due to the plugin's failure to sanitize and escape specific settings. As a result, high privilege users, including admins, can execute Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) attacks, bypassing the unfiltered_html capability restriction, even in multisite configurations.

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