XSS in Contact Form Submissions Project
CVE-2022-0248
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
Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)
Published · last modified .
CVSS v3 metric
CVSS v3 base score 6.1 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.017 (76.6th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 77th percentile — 76.6% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.017 · newest: 0.017 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Contact Form Submissions Project
- Contact Form Submissions — versions 1.7.3
Weakness classification (CWE)
Public proof-of-concept exploits
References
- wpscan.com/vulnerability/d02cf542-2d75-46bc-a0df-67bbe501cc89 (Exploit, Third Party Advisory)
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/2682024 (Patch, Third Party Advisory)
Frequently asked questions
- What is CVE-2022-0248?
- CVE-2022-0248 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Contact Form Submissions Project, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 6.1/10. Published 2022-03-14.
- How severe is CVE-2022-0248?
- Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.1 out of 10.
- Is CVE-2022-0248 known to be exploited?
- 2 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.