CVE-2022-1914 - CVE House
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Status published Medium CVE-2022-1914

Clean-Contact <= 1.6 - Arbitrary Settings Update to Stored XSS via CSRF

Vulnerability Description

The Clean-Contact WordPress plugin through 1.6 does not have CSRF check in place when updating its settings, which could allow attackers to make a logged in admin change them via a CSRF attack and lead to Stored XSS due to the lack of sanitisation and escaping as well

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:

  • Daniel Ruf

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Affected Vendor

Affected Software

Clean-Contact
Vulnerable Versions:
1.6

Timeline

Official Publish: June 27th, 2022
Last Modified: August 3rd, 2024
Added to House: July 21st, 2026

CVSS Vectors

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

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-352

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

T1566.002 Spearphishing Link
Initial Access
T1204.001 Malicious Link
Execution
T1098 Account Manipulation
Persistence
T1565.001 Stored Data Manipulation
Impact