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)
EPSS: 0.017 (74.7th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
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.
Affected products
- Contact_form_submissions_project Contact_form_submissions
- Unknown Contact Form Submissions — versions 1.7.3
Weakness classification (CWE)
Public proof-of-concept exploits
References
- contact@wpscan.com (Exploit, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)
- contact@wpscan.com (x_refsource_CONFIRM, 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.