Cyber Resilience

CVE-2023-5527

High

Published: 18 June 2024

Published
18 June 2024
Modified
08 April 2026
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 7.4 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L
EPSS Score 0.0053 67.5th percentile
Risk Priority 15 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2023-5527 is a high-severity Improper Neutralization of Formula Elements in a CSV File (CWE-1236) vulnerability in Businessdirectoryplugin Business Directory. Its CVSS base score is 7.4 (High).

Operationally, ranked in the top 32.5% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

The Business Directory Plugin plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to CSV Injection in versions up to, and including, 6.4.3 via the class-csv-exporter.php file. This allows authenticated attackers, with author-level permissions and above, to embed untrusted input into CSV files exported…

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by administrators, which can result in code execution when these files are downloaded and opened on a local system with a vulnerable configuration.

CWE(s)
CWE-1236

Related Threats

No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.

Affected Assets

businessdirectoryplugin
business directory
≤ 6.4.4

Mitigating Controls

No mitigating controls mapped yet. The per-CVE control annotator has not reached this CVE.

References