Contact Form: Cross-site scripting
Contact Form is affected by cross-site scripting. Exposure depends on how the affected operation is made reachable by the site. Injected script can execute in the affected site's origin when the vulnerable output is viewed.
- Component
- Contact Form
- Plugin slug
contact-form- Affected
- See vendor advisory
- Safe version
- See mitigation notes
- Published
- Apr 09, 2023
This CVE was published Apr 09, 2023 and is one of 20 known issues for this plugin.
Update, patch or deactivate.
Update Contact Form 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
A vulnerability was found in BestWebSoft Contact Form Plugin 1.3.4 on WordPress and classified as problematic. Affected by this issue is the function bws_add_menu_render of the file bws_menu/bws_menu.php. The manipulation of the argument bwsmn_form_email leads to cross site scripting. The attack may be launched remotely. Upgrading to version 1.3.7 is able to address this issue. The name of the patch is 4d531f74b4a801c805dc80360d4ea1312e9a278f. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component. The identifier of this vulnerability is VDB-225320.
CVE / CNA vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
NVD vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N