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CVE-2023-5527

24
FAUCET Score

CVE-2023-5527 is a CSV Injection vulnerability affecting the Business Directory Plugin for WordPress, versions up to 6.4.3. Authenticated attackers with author-level permissions can inject malicious input into CSV files exported by administrators. This can lead to code execution on a local system when the exported file is opened, posing a high severity risk with a CVSS score of 8.0. Currently, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 6.4.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:businessdirectoryplugin:business_directory:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

7.4HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
CHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
LOW
Integrity Impact
LOW
Availability Impact
LOW
Exploitability Score
3.1
Impact Score
3.7
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.49%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
39.4%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0049 is in the 51st percentile among its peer group of 890 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

plugins.trac.wordpress.org / browser/business-directory-plugin/trunk/includes/admin/class-csv-exporter.php
Product
plugins.trac.wordpress.org / browser/business-directory-plugin/trunk/includes/admin/helpers/csv/class-csv-exporter.php
Product
plugins.trac.wordpress.org / changeset/3102475/business-directory-plugin/trunk/includes/admin/helpers/csv/class-csv-exporter.php
Product
research.cleantalk.org / cve-2023-5527
wordfence.com / threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/ed037e94-68b4-4efc-9d1a-fffc4aff1c45
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