Contact Form Entries <= 1.1.6 - Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting

Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
CVE CVE-2021-25080
CVSS High (7.2)
Publicly Published January 5, 2021
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher Gaetano Perrone
Description

The Contact Form Entries WordPress plugin before 1.1.7 does not validate, sanitise and escape the IP address retrieved via headers such as CLIENT-IP and X-FORWARDED-FOR, allowing unauthenticated attackers to perform Cross-Site Scripting attacks against logged in admins viewing the created entry

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug contact-form-entries (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 1.1.6
Patched Version
  • 1.1.7
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