Contact Form Entries: Cross-site scripting
Contact Form Entries is affected by cross-site scripting. The vulnerable path is reachable without authentication. Injected script can execute in the affected site's origin when the vulnerable output is viewed.
- Component
- Contact Form Entries
- Plugin slug
contact-form-entries- Affected
- See vendor advisory
- Safe version
- See mitigation notes
- Published
- Jan 24, 2022
This CVE was published Jan 24, 2022 and is one of 13 known issues for this plugin.
Update, patch or deactivate.
Update Contact Form Entries to a release outside the affected range, or disable and remove it until a fixed version is available.
No confirmed safe version is listed. Consider a vendor-supported patch or temporarily restricting the affected functionality while you assess the risk.
Deactivate only when warranted by your risk profile, or when advised by your hosting provider in the limited circumstances where the vulnerability cannot otherwise be mitigated. If you’re unsure which action is appropriate, contact Fused or your hosting provider for guidance.
Technical 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
NVD vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N