Contact Form Submissions: Cross-site scripting
Contact Form Submissions 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 Submissions
- Plugin slug
contact-form-submissions- Affected
- See vendor advisory
- Safe version
- See mitigation notes
- Published
- Mar 14, 2022
This CVE was published Mar 14, 2022 and is one of 2 known issues for this plugin.
Update, patch or deactivate.
Update Contact Form Submissions 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 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
NVD vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N