CVE-2023-0165: Nicdark Cost Calculator

Medium severity, CVSS 5.4. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The Cost Calculator WordPress plugin through 1.8 does not validate and escape some of its shortcode attributes before outputting them back in a page/post where the shortcode is embed, which could allow users with the contributor role and above to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks.

Affected products

  • Nicdark Cost Calculator: up to and including 1.8

Published 2023-03-06. Last modified 2026-06-17.