Form - Contact Form: Cross-site scripting
Form - 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
- Form - Contact Form
- Plugin slug
form---contact-form- Affected
- See vendor advisory
- Safe version
- See mitigation notes
- Published
- Jun 27, 2022
This CVE was published Jun 27, 2022 and is one of 1 known issue for this plugin.
Update, patch or deactivate.
Update Form - 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
The Form - Contact Form WordPress plugin through 1.2.0 does not sanitize and escape Custom text fields, which could allow high-privileged users such as admin to perform Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when unfiltered_html is disallowed
NVD vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N