CVE-2023-5527

HIGH 7.4

Business Directory Plugin <= 6.4.3 - Authenticated (Author+) CSV Injection

CVSS Score

7.4

EPSS Score

0.0%

EPSS Percentile

0th

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

CWE	CWE-1236
Vendor	strategy11team
Product	business directory plugin – easy listing directories for wordpress
Published	Jun 18, 2024
Last Updated	Apr 8, 2026

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CVSS v3 Breakdown

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

Attack Vector

Attack Complexity

Privileges Required

User Interaction

Scope

Confidentiality

Integrity

Availability

Affected Versions

strategy11team / Business Directory Plugin – Easy Listing Directories for WordPress

0 ≤ 6.4.3

References

NVD ↗ CVE.org ↗ EPSS Data ↗

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

Credits

Dmitrii Ignatyev