Contact Form Submissions <= 1.7.2 - Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting

Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
CVE CVE-2022-0248
CVSS High (7.2)
Publicly Published February 21, 2022
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher R3N0
Description

The Contact Form Submissions WordPress plugin before 1.7.3 does not sanitise and escape additional fields in contact form requests before outputting them in the related submission. As a result, unauthenticated attacker could perform Cross-Site Scripting attacks against admins viewing the malicious submission

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug contact-form-submissions (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 1.7.3
Patched Version
  • 1.7.3
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