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WordPress Plugin: contact-form-submissions: CVE-2022-0248: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

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Severity

CVSS

(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)

Published

Feb 21, 2022

Added

May 15, 2025

Modified

Apr 29, 2026

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

Solution

contact-form-submissions-plugin-cve-2022-0248

References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-0248
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/4cb02d7c-5014-46e9-9d4c-c207e58a1b0b?source=api-prod
https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2022-15440
CVE-2022-0248
https://attackerkb.com/topics/CVE-2022-0248
CWE-79
EUVD-EUVD-2022-15440

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