What is CVE-2024-12423?

CVE-2024-12423 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Scottpaterson Business Essentials For Contact Form 7, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 6.1/10. Published 2025-01-15.

How severe is CVE-2024-12423?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.1 out of 10.

Is CVE-2024-12423 known to be exploited?

2 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

XSS in Scottpaterson Business Essentials For Contact Form 7

CVE-2024-12423

The Contact Form 7 Redirect & Thank You Page plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Reflected Cross-Site Scripting via the 'post' parameter in all versions up to, and including, 1.0.7 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that execute if they can successfully trick a user into performing an action such as clicking on a link.

Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)

EPSS: 0.004 (27.9th 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

Scottpaterson Business Essentials For Contact Form 7 — versions 0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting

Public proof-of-concept exploits

References

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2024-12423?: CVE-2024-12423 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Scottpaterson Business Essentials For Contact Form 7, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 6.1/10. Published 2025-01-15.
How severe is CVE-2024-12423?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.1 out of 10.
Is CVE-2024-12423 known to be exploited?: 2 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.