WS Form LITE and WS Form Pro < 1.8.176 - Stored Cross-Site Scripting

Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
CVE CVE-2022-23988
CVSS High (7.2)
Publicly Published January 31, 2022
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher Felipe Restrepo Rodriguez (pfelilpe)
Description

The WS Form LITE and Pro WordPress plugins before 1.8.176 do not sanitise and escape submitted form data, allowing unauthenticated attacker to submit XSS payloads which will get executed when a privileged user will view the related submission

References

2 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug ws-form (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 1.8.176
Patched Version
  • 1.8.176
Software Type Plugin
Software Slug ws-form-pro (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 1.8.176
Patched Version
  • 1.8.176
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