CVE-2022-0248 - CVE House
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Status published Medium CVE-2022-0248

Contact Form Submissions < 1.7.3 - Unauthenticated Stored XSS

Vulnerability Description

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

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

The following person or organization is credited with identifying this vulnerability, as recorded in the NVD database:

  • Yoru Oni

Affected Vendor

Affected Software

Contact Form Submissions
Vulnerable Versions:
1.7.3

Timeline

Official Publish: March 14th, 2022
Last Modified: August 2nd, 2024
Added to House: July 21st, 2026

CVSS Vectors

V3: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Weaknesses (CWE)