{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 1 product.","exploited":"It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2023-5971 exists.","fix":"No fix has been published for CVE-2023-5971 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.","what":"CVE-2023-5971 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in Unknown Save as PDF Plugin by Pdfcrowd, published on 9 May 2024. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2023-5971 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2023-5971 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in Unknown Save as PDF Plugin by Pdfcrowd, published on 9 May 2024. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.\nExploitation: It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2023-5971 exists.\n\nAffected product: Unknown Save as PDF Plugin by Pdfcrowd. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-5971/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-5971/index.md)","id":"CVE-2023-5971","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-5971/index.md","name":"CVE-2023-5971","record":{"aliases":["GHSA-q5vv-mwvr-xxrx"],"analysis":{"component_type":"cms_plugin","fix_type":"upgrade","impacts":["code_execution"],"network_reachable":"yes","non_default_config":true,"product_category":"WordPress plugin","requires_auth":"high_privilege","summary":"Admin users can inject malicious scripts via plugin settings, leading to stored XSS in multisite environments where unfiltered HTML is disabled.","user_interaction":"required","vuln_class":"xss"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"WPScan","cpe":[{"product":"save_as_pdf","vendor":"pdfcrowd"}],"cvss":{"score":4.8,"severity":"medium","source":"cisa-adp","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N","version":"3.1"},"cwes":[{"id":"CWE-79","name":"Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation"}],"description":"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)","ecosystems":[],"exploits":{"exploitdb":0,"first_seen":null,"github_poc":0,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":0,"nuclei":0,"refs":[],"tier":"weaponised"},"has_fix":null,"headline":"Save as PDF \u003c 3.2.0 - Admin+ Stored XSS","id":"CVE-2023-5971","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":null,"products":[],"type":"xss","year":"2023"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":1,"next":{"headline":"Kernel: the nfta_inner_num and nfta_expr_name netlink attributes accessed without checking its presence in nft_inner.c","id":"CVE-2023-5972"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"Auth bypass in SMA100","id":"CVE-2023-5970"},"products":["Save as PDF Plugin by Pdfcrowd"],"published":"2024-05-09","related":[{"cvss_score":6.5,"headline":"WordPress Save as PDF Plugin by Pdfcrowd plugin \u003c= 3.2.3 - Cross Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability","id":"CVE-2024-35649","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2024-06-04"},{"cvss_score":6.4,"headline":"Save as PDF Plugin by Pdfcrowd \u003c= 4.2.1 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting","id":"CVE-2024-10891","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2024-11-20"},{"cvss_score":5.9,"headline":"WordPress Save as PDF plugin by Pdfcrowd plugin \u003c= 4.0.0 - Cross Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability","id":"CVE-2024-37549","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2024-07-21"},{"cvss_score":5.9,"headline":"WordPress Save as PDF plugin by Pdfcrowd Plugin \u003c= 2.16.0 is vulnerable to Cross Site Scripting (XSS)","id":"CVE-2023-40668","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2023-09-27"},{"cvss_score":4.8,"headline":"Save as PDF by Pdfcrowd \u003c 3.2.2 - Admin+ Stored XSS","id":"CVE-2024-3062","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2025-05-15"}],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"US public information, NVD API terms","name":"NVD"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CWE Terms of Use","name":"CWE (MITRE)"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":"no","exploitation":"poc","technical_impact":"partial"},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2026-01-09","vendors":["Unknown"]},"summary":"Admin users can inject malicious scripts via plugin settings, leading to stored XSS in multisite environments where unfiltered HTML is disabled.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-5971/"}