CVE-2023-0272: Basixonline Nex-Forms

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

The NEX-Forms WordPress plugin before 8.3.3 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

• Basixonline Nex-Forms: before 8.3.3 (fixed in 8.3.3)

Published 2023-03-27. Last modified 2026-06-17.