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WS Form LITE <= 1.9.217 — Unauthenticated CSV Injection

CVE-2023-5424Published · Updated

Action summary

WS Form LITE – Drag & Drop Contact Form Builder: Affected: ≤1.9.217Update to 1.9.218 or newer

WS Form Pro: Affected: ≤1.9.217Update to 1.9.218 or newer

All remediation steps
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Severity
Medium4.7
CVSS
4.7
CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
What does this vector mean?
AV:N Attack vector
Network
AC:H Attack complexity
High
PR:N Privileges required
None
UI:R User interaction
Required
S:C Scope
Changed
C:L Confidentiality
Low
I:L Integrity
Low
A:N Availability
None
Weakness
CWE-1236 Improper Neutralization of Formula Elements in a CSV File
Required access
No account needed
Exploit prediction (EPSS)
No score
CISA KEV
Not listed
On this page8

Am I affected?

WS Form LITE – Drag & Drop Contact Form Builder ws-form

  1. Affected≤ 1.9.217
  2. Patched in1.9.218

Update to 1.9.218 or newer.

You are affected if you run ≤ 1.9.217. Version 1.9.218 and later are not affected by this issue.

WS Form Pro ws-form-pro

  1. Affected≤ 1.9.217
  2. Patched in1.9.218

Update to 1.9.218 or newer.

You are affected if you run ≤ 1.9.217. Version 1.9.218 and later are not affected by this issue.

  • Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under WS Form LITE – Drag & Drop Contact Form Builder.
  • No admin access? Run a passive check of your site. It reads public files only.
  • No account is needed to exploit this. Treat any exposed site on an affected version as at risk.

What to do

  1. Update to version 1.9.218, or a newer patched version
  2. Update to version 1.9.218, or a newer patched version
  3. Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
  4. Watch WS Form LITE – Drag & Drop Contact Form Builder to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.

Advisory

Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to Duc Manh.

The WS Form LITE plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to CSV Injection in versions up to, and including, 1.9.217. This allows unauthenticated attackers to embed untrusted input into exported CSV files, which can result in code execution when these files are downloaded and opened on a local system with a vulnerable configuration.

Exploits & references

Proof-of-concept & detection

No public proof-of-concept or detection template is known for this vulnerability.

Advisories & patches

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≤1.10.80Update to 1.10.82
CVE-2026-4703
Medium4.3Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Arbitrary Settings Update
≤1.11.7Update to 1.11.8
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Medium5.3Missing Authorization to Unauthenticated Sensitive Information Exposure
≤1.10.35Update to 1.10.36
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Timeline

  1. CVE published

    Severity medium, CVSS 4.7

  2. Record last updated

Sources & licenses

Wordfence record
Vulnerability data
Wordfence Intelligence. Copyright 2012-2026 Defiant Inc. Licensed under the CC BY-SA 4.0.
CVE® identifiers
Copyright 1999-2026 The MITRE Corporation. Used under the CVE Program. CVE® is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation.
CVSS / CWE
National Vulnerability Database (NVD), shown unmodified. This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.
VulnCrest content
Summary, remediation guidance and page layout © VulnCrest. Not sourced from NVD.

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