Contact Form & SMTP Plugin by PirateForms <= 2.5.1 - Unauthenticated HTML injection

Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
CVE CVE-2019-25145
CVSS High (7.2)
Publicly Published July 27, 2019
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher Jerome Bruandet
Description

The Contact Form & SMTP Plugin by PirateForms plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to HTML injection in the ‘public/class-pirateforms-public.php’ file in versions up to, and including, 2.5.1 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary HTML in emails that could be used to phish unsuspecting victims.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug pirate-forms (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 2.5.2
Patched Version
  • 2.5.2
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