CVE-2023-0165 - Cost Calculator <= 1.8 - Contributor+ Stored XSS · CoreCVE

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MEDIUM

Cost Calculator <= 1.8 - Contributor+ Stored XSS

Published Mar 6, 2023

5.4

MEDIUM

CVSS 3.1

EPSS 0.47%

Description

The Cost Calculator WordPress plugin through 1.8 does not validate and escape some of its shortcode attributes before outputting them back in a page/post where the shortcode is embed, which could allow users with the contributor role and above to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks.

Affected products

Vendor n/a Product Cost Calculator Default
affected
- Version
  0
  Status
  affected
  Constraints
  <=1.8

Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor

Product

Default status

Versions

n/a

Cost Calculator

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
0	affected	<=1.8

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Weaknesses (1)

CWE-79

Cross-site Scripting (XSS)

References (1)

https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/f00b82f7-d8ad-4f6b-b791-81cc16b6336b
exploitvdb-entrytechnical-descriptionThird Party Advisory

Link	Providers	Tags
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/f00b82f7-d8ad-4f6b-b791-81cc16b6336b		exploitvdb-entrytechnical-descriptionThird Party Advisory

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED

Assigner WPScan

Published Mar 6, 2023

Updated Mar 6, 2025

Reserved Jan 11, 2023

Link CVE-2023-0165

CISA Vulnrichment

Updated Mar 6, 2025

Status Modified

Modified Jun 17, 2026

Link CVE-2023-0165

Severity n/a

Public date n/a

Links CVE-2023-0165